Coups are making a comeback: There were 5 successful coups in 2021 — the most in any year since 1999. Go deeper ➡️
Between 2015 and 2020, the world never saw more than two successful coup attempts in a yearBut there have now been eight coups in the past 12 months — most recently in Burkina Faso, where soldiersThere were five successful coups in 2021, the most in any year since 1999, according to research from Clayton Thyne of the University of Kentucky and Jonathan Powell of the University of Central Florida.
In 2015, he notes, a coup attempt in Burkina Faso collapsed after a week due to domestic pushback and a threat of international intervention.The fact that just one successful coup took place between 2015 and 2019 may have convinced some would-be plotters they had little chance of success. But that appears to have changed.
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