Countering Coups: Experts Offer Steps for U.S. Policy

An array of Africa scholars gathers ideas to bolster U.S. help for democracy around the Sahel.

After a “year of coups” around Africa’s greater Sahel region, U.S. and other policymakers and democracy advocates are discussing how to respond. What policies—by the United States, other democracies and international institutions—can preserve democratic advances of recent decades and reverse the surge in military takeovers? Recent discussion among U.S.-based policy analysts has converged around several priorities. Analysts convened by USIP suggest concrete steps to broaden support for fragile democracies and to reverse coups when they happen. Men support Burkina Faso’s army coup in January […]

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