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Five Years after the Revolution, this is Egypt’s Worst Dictatorship

2016 Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Democracy and Politics Paper Ricard González

February 29, 2016 05:56 am

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Source: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Ricard González Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/opinion/mediterraneo_y_oriente_medio/five_years_after_the_revolution_this_is_egypt_s_worst_dictatorship/(language)/eng-US Five years after the first shoots of the Arab Spring appeared, the landscape in the region is bleak: Syria, Iraq and Yemen...

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Egypt: A Giant with (Financial) Feet of Clay

2016 Centre For Security Studies Economy José Luengo-Cabrera Paper

February 28, 2016 05:55 am

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Source: Centre For Security and Counter-Terrorism Studies Author(s): José Luengo-Cabrera Copyright: Original Link: http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/publications/publication.html/196126 Read the full publication by following the original link.

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Letter From Cairo

2016 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Nancy Okail Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

February 26, 2016 03:40 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nancy Okail Original Link: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/62891 Strategic Europe continues its Capitals Series exploring how EU foreign policy is viewed by ten countries in Europe’s Southern neighborhood. We have asked our contributors from each capital to give a candid assessment of the EU’s approach toward their country, with a ranking on a...

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Why an Italian student’s murder in Egypt could spell big trouble for the Sissi regime

2016 Foreign Relations Paper Sarah Yerkes Security and Counter-Terrorism The Brookings Institution

February 23, 2016 05:53 am

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Source: Brookings Institute Author(s): Sarah Yerkes Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2016/02/23/why-an-italian-students-murder-in-egypt-could-spell-big-trouble-for-the-sissi-regime/ Over the course of my career, I have watched Egypt’s transformation from an authoritarian state to a revolutionary one and back again. But last month’s murder of Italian graduate student Giulio...

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Egypt: Pharaonic Politics Redux?

Al Jazeera Centre For Studies Democracy and Politics Paper Wolfgang Mühlberger

February 16, 2016 17:06 pm

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Source: Al Jazeera Centre for Studies Author(s): Wolfgang Mühlberger Original Link: http://studies.aljazeera.net/en/reports/2016/02/2016216114532615382.html Post the July 2013 coup: Tajdid an-Nidham a vs. the re-creation of the ‘pharaonic’ system The transition phase in Egypt, which started in early 2011, was marked by efforts of the body politic and its various constituencies to redefine its...

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The Egyptian Interregnum: The high cost of suppressing change

2016 Democracy and Politics Egypt German Council On Foreign Relations Human Rights Ibrahim El Houdaiby Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

February 16, 2016 03:35 am

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Source: German Council On Foreign Relations (Gdap) Author(s): Ibrahim El Houdaiby Original Link: https://dgap.org/en/think-tank/publications/dgapanalyse-compact/egyptian-interregnum Five years after the ouster of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, the alliance backing Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is fragile to the point of collapse. A lack of overarching vision is leading to unprecedented levels of...

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Egypt and China following Xi’s visit

2016 Assaf Orion Foreign Relations Ofir Winter Paper The Institute For National Security Studies

February 11, 2016 05:54 am

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Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Ofir Winter, Assaf Orion Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/egypt-and-china-following-xis-visit/ In the course of the visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Egypt on January 20-22, 2016, Egypt and China announced a five-year, multi-sector cooperation agreement. This agreement injected substance into the...

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2011 Revolution in Egypt: Five Years Later

2016 Centre For Security Studies Democracy and Politics Egypt K. P. Fabian Paper

February 03, 2016 03:46 am

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Source: Centre For Security Studies Author(s): K. P. Fabian Original Link: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/195951/ib_2011-evolution-in-egypt_030216.pdf Summary: Five years later, on 25 January 2016, Tahrir Square witnessed about 300 Egyptians gathered there to deplore the 2011 Revolution and to thank President Field Marshal Sisi and the Egyptian Police for installing a repressive police state...

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Beehive: A Crisis of Trust between Young Egyptians and the al-Sisi Regime

2016 Democracy and Politics Egypt Michael Barak Paper The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Youth

January 30, 2016 03:47 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Michael Barak Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/beehive-crisis-trust-between-young-egyptians-and-al-sisi-regime In late December 2015, students from 24 universities across Egypt launched a widespread protest on social networking sites (SNS) against the involvement of the Egyptian Ministry of Education in...

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Modelling the Egyptian Shadow Economy: A Currency Demand and A MIMIC Model Approach

2016 Cesifo Group Economy Egypt Friedrich Schneider Mai Hassan Paper

January 30, 2016 03:43 am

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Source: Cesifo Group Author(s): Mai Hassan, Friedrich Schneider Original Link: https://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/DocBase_Content/WP/WP-CESifo_Working_Papers/wp-cesifo-2016/wp-cesifo-2016-01/12012016005727.html Abstract: We estimate the size and trend of the Egyptian shadow economy using two of the most common methods: the currency demand approach and the structural...

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Insecurity in Sinai and Beyond: Why the Egyptian Counterterrorism Strategy is Failing

2016 Egypt German Council On Foreign Relations Helena Burgrova Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai

January 30, 2016 03:36 am

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Source: German Council On Foreign Relations (Gdap) Author(s): Helena Burgrova Original Link: https://dgap.org/en/think-tank/publications/dgapanalyse-compact/insecurity-sinai-and-beyond Years after the protests that launched the Egyptian uprising, Egypt’s military-led government continues to pursue heavy-handed counterterrorism measures in the Sinai Peninsula as part of its broad-gauged “war on...

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Egypt’s Protests by the Numbers

2016 Amy Austin Holmes Carnegie Democracy and Politics Hussein Baoumi Paper

January 29, 2016 05:56 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amy Austin Holmes, Hussein Baoumi Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/62627 On the five-year anniversary of the January 25 revolution, empty streets and the absence of people, protests, or even official commemorations have been commentators’ dominant themes. A regime that allowed, instigated, and exaggerated the size of protests to legitimize...

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