Drew Holland Kinney is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and co-founder of La Formoisie, a blog on critical theory in the Middle East. His dissertation, Politicians at Arms, shows how postwar Middle East statesmen enlisted officers in coup conspiracies because they could not tolerate their rivals’ continued rule, but incumbents blocked peaceful competition by manipulating elections. A chapter of the project was published at Armed Forces & Society. His current project, “Sharing Saddles (in progress),” examines the conditions in which civilian factions undermine attempts to establish democratic civilian control over the armed forces during regime transitions.
