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Coup d'État Spiral-Bound | 2016-03-14

Edward N. Luttwak

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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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302 pages
ISBN-10: 0674737261
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
Additions bringing this work into the twenty-first century include Luttwak's observations about how coup plotters in the age of the internet must now take control of more than the central television station to control public propaganda… It offers as much wisdom on the counter-coup as on the coup itself… It remains in print more than forty years after it was written and still commands sales. The reason may be that it is a good read: wry, observant and practical.
-- Charles Glass Times Literary Supplement

Edward N. Luttwak is the author of several books, including Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook; Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace; and The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy, which have been published in twenty-five languages. His articles have appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Affairs, and Tablet.