Coup Transformed

The movement of Maurice Bishop took the radio station and police barracks in a nearly bloodless coup, promising grassroots democra...

James II open Catholicism, promotion of absolutist methods, and the birth of a male heir in 1688 alarmed Protestant elites who fea...

Officers who had seen constitutional Europe during the Napoleonic wars founded secret societies, the Northern and Southern unions,...

The Movimento das Forcas Armadas, young officers sick of endless colonial wars in Africa, moved to overthrow the Marcelo Caetano r...

Officers stationed in Macedonia, fearing the regime would concede territory to foreign powers, marched on the capital as the sulta...

The December 1963 independence settlement had preserved the rule of the Omani-descended sultan and his Arab-led coalition despite ...

King Idris was abroad for medical treatment when the young officers inspired by Nasserism moved. Gaddafi men took radio stations a...

Discontent with the reign of Isabella II, economic crisis, and repression of liberals brought together army generals and civilian ...

The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 and unequal treaties with Western powers discredited the Tokugawa shogunate. Samura...

The Great Depression, budget cuts, and frustration among Western educated officials with royal absolutism led to the formation of ...

Defeat in the 1948 Arab Israeli War, British military presence in the Suez Canal zone, and royal corruption discredited the monarc...

The pro-Western monarchy, closely associated with Britain and the Baghdad Pact, faced growing nationalist opposition. Officers of ...