Interviewed by CEDAR’s Petra Alderman, Professor Rory Cormac introduces his latest book How to Stage a Coup and Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft and answers Petra’s questions on:
- the difference between the reality and popular representations of covert actions and secret statecraft;
- the choices states make in relation to when covert action is used, and how it is used;
- the implications covert action and secret statecraft have on the state of global democracy;
- the ways we can defend democracy against the negative effects of covert action.
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