DPIR’s Miles Tendi releases new book on coups

DPIR’s Miles Tendi has written a new book on coups called The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups and Diplomats

The book argues the 2017 coup that ousted long time Zimbabwean president Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and the generality of coups, cannot be accurately and rigorously understood without examining the crucial role of gender and women's politics in military seizures of power. 

Tendi's book shows that gender and women's politics powerfully shape military coup causes, dynamics, justifications, and international responses to coups. 

Miles said: 

“Military men think. Military men’s ideas about (fears of, contempt for) femininity matter. 

“No coup d’etat can be reliably analysed without closely analysing both women as political actors and the workings of militarised misogyny.”