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        New York Times, The Interpreter Newsletter, “The January 6 Attack Was a Crisis. So Why Wasn’t it More of a Scandal?,” by Amanda Taub, August 10, 2022

         

        New York Times, The Interpreter Newsletter, "Could a Crackdown on Kleptocrats Help Ukraine?," by Amanda Taub, March 23, 2022

         

        New Books Network Podcast, "How to Prevent Coups D'État," hosted by Susan Liebell, March 7, 2022

         

        New York Times, "Putin Seems to Sideline Advisers on Ukraine, Taking a Political Risk," by Amanda Taub, February 28, 2022, page A6

         

        Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Deep Dish Podcast, "Coup D'états Rise as Democracy Declines," February 17, 2022

         

        Newsweek, "Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power if Trump Loses in 2024," by David H. Freeman, December 20, 2021

         

        Bloomberg, "Destroying U.S. Democracy is a Bipartisan Effort," by Niall Ferguson, December 19, 2021 | The Business Standard, "Global Democracy is Doing Fine. U.S. Democracy is in Trouble" (ungated)

         

        New York Times, "How to Tell When Your Country is Past the Point of No Return," by Thomas B. Edsall, December 15, 2021

         

        Wonkette, "Here's How Democracy is Breaking Down Right in Front of Your Inflation-Weary Eyes," by Stephen Robinson, December 13, 2021

         

        Podcast, "How to Kill a Superpower: Lessons from the USSR," Episode 5, by Yelena Biberman and Zachary Troyanovsky, distributed by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, November 2, 2021

         

        The Washington Post,"Female Professors Have Less Time to Research in the Pandemic. It Could Force Them Out of Academia, Experts Say," by Caroline Kitchener, April 18, 2021

         

        Open Canada, "On explique: Coups d’État" [We explain: Coups d’État], by Theodore McLauchlin, March 4, 2021

         

        Business Insider, “Trump Proved It’s Time for America To Learn From Other Countries About How Democracy Should Work,” by John Haltiwanger, January 21, 2021

         

        Vox, "The F Word: The Debate Over Whether to Call Donald Trump a Fascist, and Why It Matters," by Dylan Matthews, January 14, 2021

         

        Elite Daily, "Was What Happened at the Capitol a Coup? Here's What an Expert Says," by Lilli Peterson, January 12, 2021

         

        Il Fatto Quotidiano, "The Donald Ora Pensa al Suo Impero dei Media" [The Donald Now Thinks of His Media Empire], by Sabrina Provenzani, January 10, 2021

         

        New York Times, “It Wasn't Strictly a Coup. But it's Not Over, Either,” by Amanda Taub, January 7, 2021

         

        New York Times, “Is this a Coup? Experts Say No, But Just As Dangerous,” by Amanda Taub, January 7, 2021

         

        The Washington Post, “With Brazen Assault on Election, Trump Prompts Critics to Warn of a Coup,” by David Nakamura, January 5, 2021

         

        The Washington Post, “It’s Not a Coup. It’s Not Even a Bad Coup,” by Daniel W. Drezner, December 8, 2020

         

        MSNBC, “Trump's GSA Tells Biden the Transition Can Begin. But Let's Not Sugarcoat This Failed Coup,” by Marc Ambinder, November 24, 2020

         

        Interview about How to Prevent Coups on the Departures Podcast with Robert Amsterdam, “What a Coup Expert Has to Say about the Situation in the United States,” November 20, 2020

         

        ARC Digital, “Breaking Down Trump’s Plan to Steal the Election (And Why It’s Failing),” by Nicholas Grossman, November 15, 2020

         

        Interview about How to Prevent Coups with Kathimerini [The Daily, Greece], “Ο Τραμπ και οι σύμμαχοί του παίζουν επικίνδυνο παιχνίδι” [Trump and His Allies Are Playing a Dangerous Game], by Pavlos Papadopoulos, November 15, 2020

         

        The New Yorker, “The Long Term Consequences of Trump’s Antidemocratic Lies,” by John Cassidy, November 13, 2020

         

        Slate, “Whatever Trump is Doing, It Isn’t a ‘Coup,’” by Joshua Keating, November 13, 2020

         

        The Intercept, “Tantrum and Theater: Trump’s Desperation After Election Loss Isn’t Yet a Coup,” by Nick Turse, November 13, 2020

         

        The GroundTruth Project, "Attempted Coup or Auto-Coup? Either Way, an Attack on the Guardrails of Democracy," by Kevin Douglas Grant, November 13, 2020

         

        New York Times, The Interpreter Newsletter, “Are Potemkin Coups a Thing?,” by Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, November 12, 2020

         

        CNN's What Matters Newsletter, “The Virus Still Doesn’t Care about Politics,” by Zachary B. Wolf, November 11, 2020

         

        Interview with Swedish Public Service Radio P3 Dystopia, “Statskupper (Coup),” September 30, 2020

         

        The Conversation, “Dismantling the Police: Lessons From Three Places That Tried It,” by Daniel Odin Shaw, June 11, 2020

         

        The Washington Post, “Five Myths About Coups,” by John Chin, May 8, 2020

         

        War on the Rocks, “Learning from the Banality and Aftermath of Bolivia’s Coup,” by Drew Holland Kinney, February 26, 2020

         

        BBC Mundo, “Evo Morales: ¿hubo un golpe de Estado en Bolivia? BBC Mundo consultó a 6 expertos,” by Noberto Paredes, November 13, 2019

         

        Quartz, “Why It's So Hard to Tell if We're Seeing a Coup in Venezuela," by Ana Campoy, April 20, 2019

         

        Security Assistance Monitor | Lobe Log, “U.S. Military Aid to Presidential Guards a Risky Venture,” by Alexis Kedo and Colby Goodman, October 7, 2015

         

        Interview with Monacle 24 Radio, “The Coup in Burundi,” May 14, 2015

         

        Foreign Affairs, “Ready for War With ISIS? Foreign Affairs’ Brain Trust Weights In,” December 14, 2014

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