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Record W4411771574 · doi:10.1080/21598282.2025.2506989

Exploring the Causes of Military Coups in Three Francophone West African Countries since 2020: A Class Analysis Based on the Centre-Periphery Relationship

2025· article· en· W4411771574 on OpenAlex
Chen Zhang, Maxence Poulin

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Critical Thought · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal and Cross-Cultural Management
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFrenchClass (philosophy)Political scienceGeographyDevelopment economicsEconomicsArchaeology

Abstract

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From 2020, five successive military coups d’état took place in a short period in the three countries of francophone West Africa of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The newly established military juntas attempted to form a confederation. These coups and the efforts to build a confederation must be understood as a revolt of the periphery against French imperialism. Discovering the causes of these military coups and the roots of the opposition between the views of imperialist countries and those of the local population requires the application of a historical materialist perspective, starting from an analysis of the determinant economic relations. The long period of economic exploitation and political control by France made the military coups d’état the only option for the local populations of the three countries to break this unequal relationship and to pursue an auto-centric development path.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.890
Threshold uncertainty score0.993

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.278 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it