Back on horseback: The military and political transformation in Egypt

Middle East Law and Governance

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 13-23

  Albrecht, Holger ^a   Bishara, Dina ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Egypt; Military junta; Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054937280     PISSN: 18763367     EISSN: 18763375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187633711X591396     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Samuel Finer, The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics (London: Pall Mall Press, 1962).
2. On the military's political and economic role in the Mubarak era, see Robert Springborg, "The President and the Field Marshal: Civil-Military Relations in Egypt Today," Middle East Report (July-August 1987): 5-16;
3. Imad Harb, "The Egyptian Military in Politics: Disengagement or Accommodation," Middle East Journal 57, no. 2 (2003): 269-290;
4. and Steven A. Cook, Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria and Turkey (Washington D.C.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
5. Mona El-Ghobashy, "The Praxis of the Egyptian Revolution," Middle East Report, No. 258 (2011): 2-13.
6. See the document's official translation online, at http://www.sis.gov.eg/ En/LastPage.aspx Category-ID=1155 (accessed 7 July 2011).
7. Cook, Ruling But Not Governing.
8. Cf. Ibrahim Karawan, "Politics and the Army in Egypt," Survival 52, no. 2 (2011): 43-50.
9. Finer, The Man on Horseback, 25.
10. Eric Nordlinger, Soldiers in Politics: Military Coups and Governments (Englewood Cliff s: Prentice Hall, 1977), 133.
11. Nathan Brown and Kristen Stilt, "A Haphazard Constitutional Compromise," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 11 April 2011, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2011/04/11/haphazard-constitutional-compromise/ 2q1 (accessed 10 July 2011).
12. See Mohamed Gharib Ebtessam Talab, "Military Legal Advisor Demands Special Status for the Army in the New Constitution," Al Masry Al Youm (English ed.), 26 May 2011, http://www .almasryalyoum.com/en/node/452808 (accessed 10 July 2011).
13. Soldiers in Politics, 118-23.
14. See http://www.facebook.com/Egyptian.Armed.Forcessk=wall (accessed 10 July 2011). 24-42