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Considers how the international community should respond to unconstitutional seizures of power in Africa, where the military remains deeply entrenched in government. It is argued that the African Union is morally undermined in responding to such seizures of power; its Constitutive Act provides no guidance beyond suspending governments that come to power in that manner. The post-9/11 pragmatic response of the US to instabilities in African states is noted, before looking at the EU response under the Cotonou Convention. In the context of the rhetoric on regime change, a call is made to redefine the nature of nonmilitary constitutional coup & the correct response to it. J. Zendejas