This article presents a systematic analysis of military coups following popular mass uprisings in nondemocratic regimes, conceptualized as endgame coups. Drawing on our original, medium- n data set of revolutionary situations, we find that such endgame coups form a distinct type of military intervention in politics. Compared to regular coups, episodes of popular mass contestation prompt conservative interventions in politics of the military’s leadership aimed at preserving the regime’s authoritarian infrastructure. A systematic test of factors characterizing postcoup political trajectories is based on Cox proportional hazard models and provides empirical evidence in contrast to the widely held notion of “democratic coups.” Our findings reveal that endgame coups are conservative rollback coups, executed by military leaderships, that result in continued political instability and illiberal politics.

The World Social Forum (WSF), also referred to as the “Movement of Movements,” is the world's preeminent gathering of anti‐neoliberal globalization forces, arrayed since 2001 under the banner “Another World is Possible.” The WSF and its regional, national and subnational counterparts have provided hundreds of thousands of participants with a space for networking, discussion, learning, and sharing strategies to resist the cultural, economic, social, and political threats of neoliberalism.

A growing number of scholars have written about the “New Scramble for Africa” as the attention of China and the US to the continent has grown. This is better understood as a new “Cold War” in which the world’s superpowers have been engaged in a war of influence and “soft power” (Nye, Jr. 1990, 2004) in Africa for two decades. Focusing on international and local development workers in Zambia, this article outlines the contours, and implications, of Trumpism in the “New Cold War.”