Technique Coup D Etat

Comment on s’empare d’un Etat moderne et comment on le défend : à l’aide d’exemples pris dans l’histoire (le 18 Brumaire de Bonaparte) ou dans l’actualité plus proche (le coup d’Etat bolchévique de 1917, la marche sur Rome de Mussolini, l’inexorable montée de Hitler), Malaparte analyse les diverses méthodes d’insurrection moderne. Le Duce lui fit payer la justesse de ses réflexions de plusieurs mois de prison et de cinq ans d’assignation à résidence... A sa sortie en 1931, Technique du coup d’Etat fut salué dans le monde entier comme un « traité de l’art de défendre la liberté ». La fièvreuse clarté de ses théories tactiques, l’art du portrait et la finesse psychologique de l’auteur appliqués au personnel politique et militaire n’ont pas vieilli. Et font de ce livre un classique.

In this book the author analyzes the phenomenon of coup d'état as a specific means of gaining state power. Though quite frequently found in practice, this phenomenon is almost completely unexplored in political theory. The author examines the concept of coup d'état itself and its various connotations and compares coup d'état with other forms of usurpation of state power, such as revolutions, rebellions, civil wars or guerilla warfare. He also deals with the technique of coup d'état. The book includes an overview of accomplished coups d'état since the beginning of the twentieth century and a list of present political leaders who came to power in this way.

Edward Luttwak’s shocking 1968 handbook showed, step-by-step, how governments could be overthrown and inspired anti-coup precautions around the world. In addition to these instructions, his revised handbook offers a new way of looking at political power—one that considers the vulnerability of stable democracies after prolonged economic distress.

In her research studies, Elifcan Karacan shows the relation between trauma, violence and memory with a specific focus on the events considering the 1980 Military Coup d‘État in Turkey. Based on collective memory theories and cultural trauma theories, the author focuses on the reconstruction of the past in present times and memory practices, such as commemorations, anniversaries, construction of memory-places (museums). This book seeks for an understanding of collective memory within individual narrations and mnemonic practices by using narrative interviews and biographical case reconstruction methods.