Table of Contents:
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  • PART I : FROM SOLDIERS TO POLITICIANS
  • 1. Love Ballads, Carnations, and Coups
  • 2. The Romance of Democratic Transitions
  • 3. In the Land of the Blind
  • 4. Hogan's Heroes
  • 5. A Different Type of Stroke
  • PART II : BRUTUS AND CASSIUS
  • 6. Friends with Benefits
  • 7. With Friends Like These
  • 8. Musical Chairs
  • 9. The Glorious Coup
  • PART III: PRAETORIANS AND GUARDIANS
  • 10. An Army of Civilians
  • 11. Meritocracy and Nepotism
  • 12. The Enemy Within
  • 13. Foreign Affairs
  • PART IV: AN ALLIANCE OF CONVENIENCE
  • 14. Competition and Power
  • 15. Freedom and Order
  • PART V: MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
  • 16. A New Order
  • 17. Golden Parachutes
  • 18. Between Scylla and Charybdis
  • PART VI: SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?
  • 19. The Retreat
  • 20. The Broken Promise
  • PART VII: HOW THIS ENDS
  • 21. The Awakening
  • 22. Hollow Hope
  • 23. Horror Vacui
  • 24. Synergy
  • 25. Cincinnatus
  • Acknowledgments.