Скачать или смотреть The New Coups d’État: How Democracies Fall Without Violence

In Chapter One of How Democracy Ends, David Runciman explores what coups look like in modern democracies — and it’s not what we expect.

Gone are the days of tanks and generals. Today’s coups are subtle, legalistic, and often bloodless. Building on Edward Luttwak’s Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook (1968), Runciman identifies five ways democracies can fall — from executive coups and election fraud to executive aggrandizement, where leaders slowly dismantle democratic checks and balances from within.

This video looks at how this gradual erosion of democratic norms happens, why it’s so hard to notice, and what it reveals about inequality and the paradox of peace in wealthy societies.

📚 Books discussed:
– How Democracy Ends by David Runciman: https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
– Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook by Edward Luttwak: https://ia601700.us.archive.org/19/it...
– The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Leveler-...

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