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No coups occurred in 2018. Will next year be so stable?

  • Written by Clayton Besaw, Research affiliate, Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida
Turkish people in Ankara attempting to stop a military coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 16, 2016.AP Photo

The past year may have felt politically tumultuous, between Saudi Arabia’s brazen killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the resurgence of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Donald Trump’s...

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