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xi, 387 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9780190071455
Content:
In 2011, Egypt witnessed more protests than any other country in the world. Counter to the received narrative, Amy Austin Holmes argues that the ousting of Mubarak in 2011 did not represent the culmination of a revolution or the beginning of a transition period, but rather the beginning of a revolutionary process that would unfold in three waves, followed by two waves of counterrevolution. This book offers the first analysis of both the revolution and counterrevolution in Egypt from January 2011 until June 2018. The period of revolutionary upheaval played out in three uprisings against three distinct forms of authoritarian rule: the Mubarak regime and the police state that protected it, the unelected military junta known as the Supreme Council of Armed Forces, and the religious authoritarianism of the Muslim Brotherhood. The counterrevolution occurred over two periods: the first under Adly Mansour as interim president and the second after El Sisi was elected president. While the regime imprisoned or killed the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood and many secular activists during the first wave of the counterrevolution, it turned against civil society at large during the second: NGOs, charities, media, academia, and minority groups. In addition to providing new and unprecedented empirical data, Coups and Revolutions makes two theoretical contributions. First, it presents a new framework for analyzing the state apparatus in Egypt based on four pillars of regime support that can either prop up or press upon whoever is in power. These are the Egyptian military, the business elite, the United States, and the multi-headed opposition. Secondly, the book brings together the literature on bottom-up revolutionary movements and top-down military coups, and it introduces the concept of a coup from below in contrast to the revolution from above that took place under Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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Revolution
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Introduction : revolutionary risings in Egypt
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Revolutions and coups
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"The people want to overthrow the regime" : the first wave against the Mubarak regime (January 25 - February 11, 2011)
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"Down down with military rule" : the second wave against the military junta (February 12, 2011 - June 30, 2012)
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"Down, down with the supreme guide" : the third wave against the Muslim Brotherhood (July 1, 2012 - July 3, 2013)
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Counterrevolution and the return to military rule
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"Sisi is a killer" / "elect the pimp" : first wave of counter-revolution (July 4, 2013 - June 7, 2014)
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"Tiran and Sanafir are Egyptian!" : second wave of counter-revolution : Sisi as president (June 8, 2014 - July 2018)
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Conclusion : waves of revolution and counterrevolution
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190071462
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190071479
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190071486
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Holmes, Amy Austin, 1973 - Coups and revolutions New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780190071486
Language:
English
Keywords:
Ägypten
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USA
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Außenbeziehungen
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Politik
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Geschichte 2011-2019
Author information:
Holmes, Amy Austin 1973-
