Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak

Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook



Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook book




Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook Edward N. Luttwak ebook
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ISBN: 0674175476, 9780674175471
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Page: 216


Edward N Luttwak, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of many books, including Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook. Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper's. Luttwak, an inveterate provocateur and the author of several earlier studies of strategy, including the audacious “Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook” (1979), has been pondering this Byzantine puzzle for two decades. Published by Harvard University Press in 1968, it is entitled Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook. The guy has been studying this stuff for years. LUTTWAK is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of many books, including Coup D'Etat: A Practical Handbook. In a typical coup the military is used to depose the existing government and replace it with another body, civil or military. It's very out-of-date (written in 1969) but still fascinating. I found some excepts from Luttwak's Coup D'Etat: A Practical Handbook here (also the book is available at Amazon). I found his book, Coup d'Etat; A Practical Handbook while a Political Science major, and it was the first of his books that have a permanent place on my bookshelf. A coup d'état typically uses the extant government's power to assume political control of the country. "Typically, a coup d'état uses the extant government's power to assume political control of the country. The particular piece that I refer to is one that was written by Italian journalist Maurizio Blondet on neocon Edward Luttwak that references his seminal 1968 book Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook. Postscript to Chapter 3: Luttwak's Coup D'Etat: A Practical Handbook Maurizio Blondet It is not a recent book. BILL WASIK is a senior editor of Harper's Magazine. He is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, and he published his first book, Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, at the age of 26.