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work_nimw4nzd7fd7rawvo6h2awgoxi	Jaimie Bleck	Philip Roessler. Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa. The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 389 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107176072	2020	2	.pdf	application/pdf	810	65	59	Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa. Why do heads of African states often exclude leaders of other ethnic groups Philip Roessler's Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa answers coups, civil war, and ethnic politics. readers through the dilemma faced by African executives in weak bureaucratic states: the coup-civil war tradeoff. Roessler argues, "Civil wars are the manifestation of the political strategies rulers choose to coup-proof their The author adopts a nested research design, which combines interviews tracing political decision-making with quantitative analysis to test the Then he draws on the Ethnic Power Relations dataset in conjunction with original data on the ethnicity of coup conspirators to test of the coup-civil war trap: why have some countries achieved an "ethnic coups, ethnic politics, and international relations. doi:10.1017/asr.2019.72 jbleck@nd.edu Civil War and The Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Ethnic Identities." African Coup." African Studies Review 60 (1): 15–35.	./cache/work_nimw4nzd7fd7rawvo6h2awgoxi.pdf	./txt/work_nimw4nzd7fd7rawvo6h2awgoxi.txt