Politics and the army in Egypt

Survival

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 43-50

  Karawan, Ibrahim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 79953678959     PISSN: 00396338     EISSN: 14682699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2011.571009     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Ibrahim Karawan, 'Security Sector Reform and Retrenchment in the Middle East', in Heiner Hnaggi and Theodore Winkler (eds), Challenges of Security Sector Governance (Munster: LIT Verlag, 2003), pp. 247-75.
2. Ali Hillal Dessouki and Adel al-Laban, 'Arms Race, Defense Expenditures, and Development', Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 4, no. 3, Spring 1981, pp. 70-75.
3. For political discussions about the role of the army at the time see Adel Hussein, 'al-Jaysh wa Mustaqbal al-Dimoouqratoiyah' [The Army and the Future of Democracy], al Sha'b, 7 January 1986, General Ahmed Fakhral-Infaq al-'Askari al-Masri, 'The Egyptian Military Expenditure', al-Ahram, 25 July 1986. Note
4. For a skeptical outlook see Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg, 'A Tunisian Solution for Egypt's Military', Foreign Afairs.com, 21 February 2011. On the profles of the ofcers who constitute the Supreme Military Council see the New York Times, 14 February 2011. Note
5. Anthony Cordesman, 'The Egyptian Military and the Arab-Israeli Military Balance', CSIS, 10 February 2011, http://csis.org/ fles/publication/110210_egypt-arab-israeli_mil_bal.pdf.
6. For comparative analysis with the case of Turkey, Ali Ezzatyar, 'The Turkish Precedent is One which the Egyptian Military Should Not Follow', Daily Star, 28 February 2011.