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Coups and Conspiracies in the Modern Middle East
Salah Ben Hammou & Jonathan Powell

Algeria
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Libya
Morocco
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Tunisia
Turkey
UAE
South Yemen
North Yemen

This project began as part of an effort to revise and expand the Powell & Thyne "Global Instances of Coups" dataset. Given substantial changes in the availability of relevant sources since the dataset's original creation over a decade ago, Ben Hammou & Powell reinvented the way coup activity is documented and recorded. Previous projects have largely aggregated and revisited  prior coup lists by creating a list of "candidate" cases and investigating those candidates. This has generally meant broadening the use of available sources to conduct research on already-identified events.

Recognizing the potential for candidate lists to be undermined by reporting bias, this project ignored prior coup lists altogether (including Powell & Thyne) and instead conducted an exhaustive search of potential coup events from traditionally used English-language sources (e.g., New York Times, Keesings), major French outlets (e.g., Le Monde), region-specific magazines (e.g., Jeune Afrique, West Africa), regional newspapers (e.g., Addis Herald, Al-Ahram), political biographies, memoirs from politicians and soldiers, country histories, and other related academic outputs.


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