• A coup is shorthand for "coup d’etat," a French term that means the overthrow of the government. The key element of a coup is that it is carried out beyond the bounds of legality. Coups can be ...

The recent coup d’état in Gabon marks the latest casualty of the “coup contagion” spreading across Africa. Given the frenetic pace of the minute-by-minute news cycle of the social media era, it’s easy ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Thailand is, notoriously, the only middle-income or high-middle income country that continues to have regular coups. (Brazil defeated a coup ...

Sometime in the second week of December, an improbable video began making the rounds on French-language social media. France, it claimed, was subject to a coup d’état, and President Emmanuel Macron ...

A pro-democracy demonstrator pulls a Soviet soldier from his tank in front of Moscow's White House on Aug. 19, 1991, as a coup attempted to install a hardline right-wing dictatorship. Credit: DIMA ...

A group of soldiers announced Sunday morning on Benin state television the dissolution of the government of President Patrice Talon in an apparent coup, which would have been the latest of many in ...

CHANG: Armored vehicles have taken to the streets of the capital, La Paz, surrounding the governmental palace and repelling demonstrators with tear gas. We're joined now by NPR's Carrie Kahn for the ...

Clayton Besaw is a research associate with the One Earth Future Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes peace and security in post-conflict countries. Jonathan Powell does not work for, ...