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EGYPT ON THE EDGE
Author: EGYPT ON THE EDGE: HOW EUROPE CAN AVOID ANOTHER CRISIS IN EGYPT.
Author: Yasser El-ShimyEgypt's Unsustainable Crackdown
Author: Anthony DworkinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906538927
Category : Democratization
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
"As Egypt prepares for a constitutional referendum next week, protests by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood continue to sweep the country. More clashes are expected today as the Brotherhood has called for new demonstrations. The decision to declare the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist organisation, announced at the end of December, marks a further escalation of the authorities' campaign against the group. Six months after the army deposed Egypt's first freely elected president, the new authorities are keen to give the impression that the country is back on the path to democracy. But is this really the case? And how can Europe help Egypt in the coming months and years? In a new ECFR policy memo--Egypt's unsustainable crackdown--Anthony Dworkin and Hélène Michou argue that the authorities' attempt to restore public order through repression will not succeed. Egypt cannot hope to establish a stable and democratic political order while trying to eradicate the Muslim Brotherhood as an organisation, and the attempt will only fuel increasing violence and disorder. The EU must recognise this fact and build a new policy towards Egypt on this basis. Political dynamics in Egypt and the role of the Muslim Brotherhood: Egypt is not moving towards meaningful democracy or stability. Instead, the country remains under the control of an army leadership that has overseen a harsh crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and now appears to be trying to exclude them permanently from the country's political life -- A new controversial constitution has been drafted and will be put to a referendum next week. Parliamentary and presidential elections are scheduled to follow later this year-but the repression of alternative voices will not result in a political solution that can overcome the country's deep political and societal divisions -- While there are uncertainties about the path that Egypt will follow it is clear that the country's powerful security forces will have decisive influence over the future of Egypt. Against a background of popular intolerance and public media that strongly back the state, there is little prospect of the clampdown being lifted in the short term. A long-term vision for European policy: Europe needs to view Egypt in a longer-term perspective and craft a set of policies that are focused on the fundamental elements that will be necessary sooner or later for a truly stable political framework to emerge -- The EU should emphasise that political stability, economic development, and security will only be possible if the Egyptian authorities pursue a different course that encompasses a political vision for reintegrating Egyptian society -- The EU should avoid the temptation to buy into the interim authorities' picture of "normalisation". The EU should resist any policy that suggests a return to business as usual as long as the current security state vision is predominant. "It's tempting for the EU to accept Egyptian authorities' actions at face value, but they are not likely to lead to stable politics or an improvement in security. Instead, the EU should keep its focus on the steps that will ultimately be necessary for Egypt to move forward." Anthony Dworkin. "The EU is facing the considerable challenge of how best to support Egypt's transition without unconditionally endorsing the road map set out by the interim authorities. As dissenting voices are squeezed out of the political sphere, Egypt's political leadership must recognise that its future stability depends in large part on its ability to tackle structural causes of injustice and democratic deficits." Hélène Michou"--Publisher's description.
Egypt
Author: Robert SpringborgPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 150952052X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to which Egypt currently is subjected and which are bound to intensify are already straining the ties that hold its political community together, while rendering ever more difficult the task of governing it. In this timely book, leading expert on Egyptian affairs Robert Springborg explains how a country with such a long and impressive history has now arrived at this parlous condition. As Egyptians become steadily more divided by class, religion, region, ethnicity, gender and contrasting views of how, by whom and for what purposes they should be governed, so their rulers become ever more fearful, repressive and unrepresentative. Caught in a downward spiral in which poor governance is both cause and consequence, Egypt is facing a future so uncertain that it could end up resembling neighboring countries that have collapsed under similar loads. The Egyptian "hot spot", Springborg argues, is destined to become steadily hotter, with ominous implications for its peoples, the Middle East and North Africa, and the wider world.
Colonising Egypt
Author: Timothy MitchellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
Access to Knowledge in Egypt
Author: Lea ShaverPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849660166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. "This book is an important contribution to recovering a nuanced, contextually aware view of access to knowledge and global knowledge governance" Yochaie Benkler, Harvard Law School "This is a 'must read' for scholars and practioners interested in economic devlopment, cultural production and access to knowledge" Susan Sell, George Washington University This volume features five chapters on current issues facing intellectual property, innovation and development policy from the Egyptian perspective. These include: information and communications technology for development, copyright and comparative business models in music, open source software, patent reform and access to medicines, and the role of the Egyptian government in promoting access to knowledge internationally and domestically. Together these chapters offer an overview of the challenges and opportunities facing efforts to promote access to knowledge. Combining both theoretical and empirical approaches, the work will be of interest to scholars and practitioners dealing with intellectual property and innovation property the world over.
The Egyptians
Author: Jack ShenkerPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 184614633X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politics In early 2011, Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention of the world. Half a decade later, the international media has largely moved on from Egypt's explosive cycles of revolution and counter-revolution - but the Arab World's most populous nation remains as volatile as ever, its turmoil intimately bound up with forms of authoritarian power and grassroots resistance that stretch right across the globe. In The Egyptians: A Radical Story, Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses that depict contemporary Egypt as a battle between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other, far more important fault lines: the far-flung communities waging war against transnational corporations, the men and women fighting to subvert long-established gender norms, the workers dramatically seizing control of their own factories, and the cultural producers (novelists, graffiti artists and illicit bedroom DJs) appropriating public space in defiance of their repressive and increasingly violent western-backed regime. Situating the Egyptian revolution in its proper context - not as an isolated event, but as an ongoing popular struggle against a certain model of state authority and economic exclusion that is replicated in different forms around the world - The Egyptians explains why the events of the past five years have proved so threatening to elites both inside Egypt and abroad. As Egypt's rulers seek to eliminate all forms of dissent, seeded within the rebellious politics of Egypt's young generation are big ideas about democracy, sovereignty, social justice and resistance that could yet change the world.
Global Trends 2040
Author: National Intelligence CouncilPublisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN: 9781646794973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Confronting Fascism in Egypt
Author: Israel GershoniPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080477255X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Confronting Fascism in Egypt offers a new reading of the political and intellectual culture of Egypt during the interwar era. Though scholarship has commonly emphasized Arab political and military support of Axis powers, this work reveals that the shapers of Egyptian public opinion were largely unreceptive to fascism, openly rejecting totalitarian ideas and practices, Nazi racism, and Italy's and Germany's expansionist and imperialist agendas. The majority (although not all) of Egyptian voices supported liberal democracy against the fascist challenge, and most Egyptians sought to improve and reform, rather than to replace and destroy, the existing constitutional and parliamentary system. The authors place Egyptian public discourse in the broader context of the complex public sphere within which debate unfolded—in Egypt's large and vibrant network of daily newspapers, as well as the weekly or monthly opinion journals—emphasizing the open, diverse, and pluralistic nature of the interwar political and cultural arena. In examining Muslim views of fascism at the moment when classical fascism was at its peak, this enlightening book seriously challenges the recent assumption of an inherent Muslim predisposition toward authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and "Islamo-Fascism."
The Left Case Against the EU
Author: Costas LapavitsasPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509531084
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. He contends that the EU’s response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas’s powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe.