Coup d'état

These two political leaders though their rise to power, respect for others, and use of power have formed a reputation for all political leaders. What a political leader does to rise to power shows like a preview to the kind of leader they will serve as. Whether they fight for leadership with a motivation for greed or ambition it will affect many people's views of who they're leaders as a person and what they think and feel about that particular political leader. If a person only ever knows one political leader to them whoever that political leader that happens to processes power at the present time will be judged by people who think all leaders of politics are alike. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo seized power in a military coup during the year 1979 (The Resource Curse). In order to gain power, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, used military force against his own uncle to gain political rights to this country and become a leader instead of a traditional way of writing speeches, getting support piece by piece, and allowing people to make their own choices of whether they thought he was a fit leader. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, in 1979, fought in the coop of liberty using military force as an army commander and police chief fighting with Moroccan troops to seize power of Equatorial Guinea. His way of gaining power had a negative impact on people's views of government leaders due to his greed of a power. Rather than him working for the people he was pushed by his…

In both documentaries, General Idi Amin Dada and The Act of Killing, the authors spent a considerable amount of time with the perpetrators of mass murder. In The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer gets access to the executioners, gangsters and paramilitary leaders who carried out millions of mass killings. In General Idi Amin, Barbet Schroeder spent time with one of the greatest mass murderers and the third Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada. Schroeder was able to document his firsthand account of…

In his film, Missing (1982), director Costa-Gavras documents the disappearance/death of US citizen Charles Horman (John Shea) during the 1973 military coup in Chile. In doing so, Costa-Gavras’ film offers a realistic portrayal of the US government’s involvement in the coup through a documented account of their failure to protect their own citizens. He accomplishes this by having the film follow the emotional journey of Charles Foreman’s father, Ed Horman (Jack Lemon), who represents the…

cases, the resilience of preexisting assumptions can often be the downfall of an operation. For instance, in the case of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Robert Jervis discusses how the consensus that the Shah would eventually crackdown or that the opposition would split contributed largely to the intelligence failure. Likewise, in the case of the Korean War, the United States made many faulty assumptions about their adversaries’ intentions and capabilities. The most egregious of which being the…

interest in Iran. The fight for oil began, and continued even after the Majlis nationalized the industry in 1951 with the help of the newly elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Mossadegh was at first considered not a threat by the United States, but because of the ongoing fear of communism during the Cold War the view on Mossadegh shifted radically. This shift in views in the United States leads to the 1953 Iranian coup. The book All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer draws through the…

groups in Fiji, where the former consists of around 51 percent of the total population and the latter makes up around 43 percent. The trends of migration from Fiji to New Zealand can be traced back to 1960s when Fiji was working towards independence from Britain, however, the process of migration accelerated in the late 1980s. It was mostly the Fiji Indians emigrating out of Fiji as a result of the bitter conditions, such as racial tensions and discrimination, created by the military coup…

The coup d’état has plagued Africa since the wave of independence that swept over the continent in the 1950s and 60s (Drury, Shearer, Cole, Hernann, & Sharif 2010). During this period, newly decolonized countries were handed the keys to their own political, economic, and social autonomy. With this autonomy, however, also came great instability. Numerous African countries such as Zaire were given very little time to develop their own governments, economy, and infrastructure of their own (Pfaff…

In the following paper I will attempt to use multiple sources and a wide variety of opinions to form a conclusion of whether or not the 1953 Iranian Coup d’état was successful from a geopolitical perspective. We will sift through multiple historical accounts weighing the pros and cons of and the repercussions of the 1953 coup, the benefits, and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Additionally we will review two CIA documents: the first, a synopsis events before and during TPAJAX,…

In order to determine if there is a relationship between foreign aid and African coup susceptibility, one must first operationalize these variables as measurements. With regard to the coup d’état, successful coups must first be distinguished from unsuccessful coups and plotted coups (Lunde 1991). According to Jackman (1978), a successful coup occurs when the incumbent political regime is spontaneously and illegally replaced by an insurgent group, usually without physically participating in the…

The October Revolution: Coup or Social Uprising? Historians along the century have questioned the veracity of the narrative the Bolsheviks fed to the people of Russia and the rest of the world. These historians claim that the communist party has distorted the facts of said revolution to control masses during the Soviet reign. The overthrow of the Provisional Government in October 1917 was both a Bolshevik-engineered coup d’état and a popular revolution. Chroniclers have debated this statement…