BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;Sovereignty\, Order and Conflict presentHow to Prevent Coups d'EtatWhy are some rulers able to head off challenges\nto their rule from their own armed forces\, while ot hers are not? How to\nPrevent Coups d’état argues that part of the answer lies in the ways in\nwhich rulers organize and use their coercive institut ions. Where rulers\ncounterbalance the military with presidential guards\, militarized police\, and\nmilitia\, efforts to oust them from power are l ess likely to succeed. At the\nsame time\, however\, this strategy can gen erate resentment within the military\nthat ends up provoking new coup atte mpts. Drawing on an original dataset of\ncoercive institutions in 110 coun tries over a span of fifty years\, as well as\ncase studies of coup attemp ts in Asia\, Africa\, Latin America\, and the Middle\nEast\, the book shed s light on whether and how rulers can make their regimes\nimpervious to co ups. It shows that while counterbalancing may prevent\nsuccessful coup att empts\, it is a risky strategy to pursue—and one that may\nweaken regimes in the long term.Erica De BruinAssociate Professor \;Hamilton CollegeE rica De Bruin is an Associate Professor of\nGovernment at Hamilton College \, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute at the United Sta tes Military Academy at West Point. Her research\nfocuses on civil-militar y relations\, civil war\, and militarized policing. She\nis the author of How to Prevent Coups d’état: Counterbalancing and Regime\nSurvival (Cornel l University Press). Her research has also been published\nin the Journal of Peace Research and Journal of Conflict\nResolution. She holds a Ph.D. i n Political Science from Yale\nUniversity\, and a B.A. from Columbia Unive rsity.For more information\, please contact Ryan Griffiths\, rgriff01@syr. edu. To request additional accommodations or arrangements\, please contact jmhoran@syr.edu DTEND:20211011T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T030332Z DTSTART:20211011T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Erica De Bruin: How to Prevent Coups d'Etat UID:RFCALITEM639141374126992775 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

Sovereignty\, Order and Conflict present


How to Prevent Coups d'Etat

Why are some rulers able to head off chall enges\nto their rule from their own armed forces\, while others are not? < i>How to\nPrevent Coups d’état argues that part of the answer lies in the ways in\nwhich rulers organize and use their coercive institutions. Wh ere rulers\ncounterbalance the military with presidential guards\, militar ized police\, and\nmilitia\, efforts to oust them from power are less like ly to succeed. At the\nsame time\, however\, this strategy can generate re sentment within the military\nthat ends up provoking new coup attempts. Dr awing on an original dataset of\ncoercive institutions in 110 countries ov er a span of fifty years\, as well as\ncase studies of coup attempts in As ia\, Africa\, Latin America\, and the Middle\nEast\, the book sheds light on whether and how rulers can make their regimes\nimpervious to coups. It shows that while counterbalancing may prevent\nsuccessful coup attempts\, it is a risky strategy to pursue—and one that may\nweaken regimes in the l ong term.


Erica De Bruin

Associate Professor \;

Hamilton College


Erica De Bruin is an Associate Professor of\nGovernment at Hamilton College\, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Her research\nfocuses on civil-mili tary relations\, civil war\, and militarized policing. She\nis the author of How to Prevent Coups d’état: Counterbalancing and Regime\nSurvival (Cornell University Press). Her research has also been published\nin th e Journal of Peace Research and Journal of Conflict\nReso lution. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale\nUniversity\, and a B.A. from Columbia University.


For more informatio n\, please contact Ryan Griffiths\, rgriff01@syr.edu. To request additiona l accommodations or arrangements\, please contact jmhoran@syr.edu

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