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Coup Theories and Officers' Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Coup Theories and Officers' Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative Perspective
Contributors:
By (Author) Donald L. Horowitz
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
321.09
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
258
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
539g
Description
Donald Horowitz presents a case study of an attempted military coup in Sri Lanka. On the basis of interviews with twenty-three participants in this attempted coup--a mine of information rarely available for a study like this--he provides first-hand evidence of the way officers' motives interact with social and political conditions to foster coup at
