Abstract
This paper examines and analyzes the 2006 Coup in Thailand. The essay argues that the 2006 coup was the result of two fundamental factors. The first was one group trying to dominate. The second was the 1997 Constitution.

From the Paper
"The concept of democracy is never as simple as many people would have you believe. For a democracy to be sustainable it is necessary to maintain a difficult balance between political, economic and cultural factors. If these factors are not in place then the democracy will not be sustainable and chaos will ensue. To prove this argument it is necessary to look at this real life example. The example that will be examined is Thailand. Thailand is a country in which competing economic, political and cultural factors are never in balance. As a result governments are constantly changing...."

Tags:thailand, 2006, coup

Abstract
The paper examines "Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala" by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer and "Modern Latin America" by Thomas E. Skidmore and Peter H. Smith as they relate to the Guatemalan coup of 1954. The paper explores the role of the United Fruit Company (UFC) in the coup that overturned the legitimate Arbenz government of Guatemala in 1954, the CIA role in this affair and the UFC's relationship with the U.S. State Department and with the Guatemalan workers.

From the Paper
"How many Americans know that the United States Government directly and dramatically interfered with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation (Guatemala) in 1954? And it wasn't a matter of small-time inference, but in fact the American CIA installed a dictator friendly to the U.S., and ousted the existing Arbenz administration. Probably few Americans also realize that this action in Guatemala was not a unique moment in U.S. interference in foreign nation's internal affairs. Indeed, the CIA had orchestrated and carried out a coup in Iran on August 19, 1953. The CIA installed the Shah of Iran into power thanks to a plan called "Operation Ajax" authorized by President Dwight Eisenhower and directed by the same men who carried out the coup against the legitimate government of Guatemala - brothers John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State) and Allen Dulles (CIA Director). The Iranian coup was fully explained in a book called All the Shaw's Men by Stephen Kinzer, the same author who co-wrote Bitter Fruit."

Tags:CIA, foreign, policy, Dulles, Eisenhower, Shah, Iran, Arbenz, government

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This paper is written in the form of a memo to Henry Kissinger. The paper lays out the recent history of the U.S. policy toward the socialist leadership of Chile. It then provides several arguments as to why support for the coup in Chile was in the best interest of the U.S at the time it was written.

From the Paper
"These policies have been partially successful in creating social unrest and displeasure with the Chilean socialist government among the citizens and workers of that nation, although a rebellion against the government by the masses is unlikely. The economic failures of the socialist economy have been especially detrimental to the working class, which suffers from low wages and poor working conditions, further undermining the credibility of the socialist reforms imposed by Allende and contributed to civil unrest in the nation."

Tags:economic, socialist, government

Abstract
This paper examines the role that the US government played in the Iranian coup of 1953 which overthrew Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. The paper explains why the details were not released until 2000 and analyzes how the overthrow was a turning point in modern Iranian history.

From the Paper
"In the New York Times, they published an extensive article outlining the role of the US Central Intelligence Agency in the overthrow of the Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a leading proponent of nationalizing the oil industry in Iran. It had long been known that the American and British governments were behind the coup which restored the Shah Mohammed Reza Pazhlavi to power."

Tags:CIA, British government, US Government, Mohammed Mossadegh

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This paper compares two perspectives on the Pakistani military coup of 1958. One is the fictional interpretation of the leaders' meetings, as told by Salman Rushdie in his novel "Midnight's Children" from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy. The other is the more traditional, politically thorough, multiple-perspective retelling in Ian Talbot's "Pakistan: a Modern History".

Abstract
Still present in modern day, discontent amongst lower class Chileans has been existent since the Spanish Conquest and the first imbalances of power. It has grown, evolved and has seemed to become the catalyst of change in Chilean society and politics. The paper shows that Chile's history of politics has not been a clear one; bouncing around from left to right, from one form of political dictatorship to another, it has overcome countless incapable leaders and corrupt governments but has also suffered innumerable losses. The paper shows that the military coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 and initiated a regime of terror under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet was the result of numerous economic and political factors that united to cause the bloodiest day in Chile's modern history.

From the Paper
"As Allende was working for the people and against capitalism, the States was working against him. As the Cold War progressed throughout the world, the United States was on an anti-communist mission to prevent any social movement that would cause disruption in their capitalistic plans and feared any country that had a large number of these supporters. As a result of the increase in real income for the mass of Chilean workers, monetary expansion stimulated a stagnant economy, which caused higher inflation . When copper prices began to fall, the United States made the move to kick Allende when he was down."

Tags:Anaconda, socialism, indian, CIA

Abstract
Ambrose Bierce successfully de-glamorized war by depicting the grueling realities of battle in an era when war was deemed romantic. The paper describes the story and introduces the main character. The paper analyzes the use of nature in the short story and shows how counting and numbers are used to project the detached tone throughout the setting. The paper demonstrates how a transition is made in the story from one of detachment to one of emotion.

Table of Contents:

Title
Introduction
Use of Descriptors in the Setting
Main Character
Nature
Transition: Detachment to Emotion
Resolution
Conclusion

From the Paper
"In his detached style, Bierce relays a story describing the horrors of war after battle. He uses words like "tidying up a bit" to downplay the carnage in the first scene of The Coup De Grace. The narrator's voice is far removed. The attitude is nonchalant, yet the images are gruesomely spectacular. Bodies strewn about are treated with acute indifference."

Tags:war, horror, character

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The paper presents the thesis that the overthrow of the Guatemalan government, by mean of the invasion of a rebel army and the lack of resistance of the national army, was undertaken because of a misperception that the Guatemalan government was communist. This paper discusses the coup.

From the Paper
"Why did the United States Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, engineer the June 1954 overthrow of the government of Guatemala? Thesis: The overthrow of the Guatemalan government, by mean of the invasion of a rebel army and the lack of resistance of the national army, was undertaken because of a misperception that the Guatemalan government was communist."

Tags:cia, guatamala, coups

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"This paper will discuss the events which took place during the attempted Soviet coup of August, 1991. During the coup, Communist party hard-liners tried to take control of the Soviet Union and thereby restore the monopolistic power of their party. They were concerned with the democratic reforms which had been set in motion by the General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev. In addition, they were concerned with the rising popularity of Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Republic. Yeltsin was seen as a threat to the power of the Communist party because he was an advocate of even more radical reforms than those of Gorbachev.


Prior to the coup attempt, the Communist party had been the single ruling party of the Soviet Union for more than seventy years. The party first came to power under the leadership of Nikolai Lenin during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Later, the..."

Abstract
This paper discusses the leadership Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow Indians. The author relates his including life, pre-reservation and on the reservation. The paper describes his fight to obtain Crow Indian rights from the U.S. government.

From the Paper
"Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow was born in the son of Medicine Bird and his wife Otter Woman. Chief Plenty Coups was named by his father as he had a dream that his son would count many coups live to an old age and become a chief ... of Plenty-Coups. All of these premonitions would be realized by Chief Plenty Coups and while he was instrumental in helping the Crow in battles against other ...."

Tags:Custer, Little Big Horn, education, ranching, farming, warrior, WWI, Crow Act 1920, Native Americans, unknown soldier, Congress, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Lakota Sioux, Montana, land rights