Naunihal Singh

Naunihal Singh is an associate professor and director of the Africa Regional Studies Group at the US Naval War College. He received his BS from Yale and his PhD from Harvard. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame, the United States Air War College prior to coming to the Naval War College. He is the author of “Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups” as well as multiple articles published in both scholarly journals and general publications. Most recently, he is the author of “The Myth of the Coup Contagion,” in the Journal of Democracy, and his research has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post and Foreign Policy Magazine.