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Coupvolution
A coupvolution or coup-volution is a portmanteau of a coup d'état and a revolution, in which regime change is carried out in support of a mass mobilisation against an existing government. The neologism was coined in 2011 by American military studies scholar Nathan Toronto, who used it to refer to the 2011 Egyptian revolution. The term has subsequently been used to refer to the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising, the 2019 Sudanese revolution and the 2021 Tunisian self-coup. More recently, Russian political scientist Andrey Korotayev has used the term to analyse the various coups that have taken place in the "Coup Belt".
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A coupvolution or coup-volution is a portmanteau of a coup d'état and a revolution, in which regime change is carried out in support of a mass mobilisation against an existing government. The neologism was coined in 2011 by American military studies scholar Nathan Toronto, who used it to refer to the 2011 Egyptian revolution. The term has subsequently been used to refer to the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising, the 2019 Sudanese revolution and the 2021 Tunisian self-coup. More recently, Russian political scientist Andrey Korotayev has used the term to analyse the various coups that have taken place in the "Coup Belt".
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