Democracy and Politics – Page 54 – Middle East Policy Platform

Iqtisadi: The Good News from Egypt – and the Bad

2015 Democracy and Politics Economy Paper Paul Rivlin The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies

December 30, 2015 05:55 am

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Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Paul Rivlin Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/iqtisadi-good-news-egypt-%E2%80%93-and-bad At the beginning of August 2015, President ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated the expansion of the Suez Canal project. It added 35 kilometers (km) of new channels to the existing canal, forming a parallel side channel...

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Egypt Now Looks a Lot Like It Did in 2010, Just Before 2011 Unrest

2015 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Michele Dunne Nik Nevin Paper

December 16, 2015 03:46 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nik Nevin, Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/12/16/egypt-now-looks-lot-like-it-did-in-2010-just-before-2011-unrest-pub-62297 Egypt of December 2015 is looking a lot like Egypt of late 2010 and the final months of Hosni Mubarak‘s three-decade rule. The country’s longtime military president had little political sophistication...

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Egypt’s New Parliament—Posturing Without Politics

2015 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Nathan J. Brown Paper

December 07, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2015/12/07/egypt-s-new-parliament-posturing-without-politics-pub-62210 Judging from the number of times they have been summoned to the polls in recent years, Egyptians would seem to have an enthusiastically democratic system. Judging from the comments of most analysts, Egyptians have returned to...

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Egypt’s Islamists: Weak Presence in Elections

2015 Democracy and Politics Islamic Movements and Institutions Paper Unknown Wilson Centre

December 06, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/egypts-islamists-weak-presence-elections Islamist parties played a minimal role in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, which began on October 18 and continued in several rounds in November and December. The Salafist Nour Party – the only Islamist party that fielded candidates – fared poorly. It secured...

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Did Egypt’s Parliamentary Election just trump citizens’ rights?

2015 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Paper Ragab Saad

November 20, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Ragab Saad Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17642&lang=en Introduction: Since the Muslim Brotherhood rule was toppled in July 2013, the regime of President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi has strived to consolidate his one-man rule; he painted the political opposition and civil society as traitors and foreign agents and exploited the...

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Egypt’s democratic window-dressing: Procedural elections and paltry voter participation indicate a non-pluralistic transformation

2015 Democracy and Politics Finnish Institute Of International Affairs Paper Wolfgang Mühlberger

November 18, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: Finnish Institute Of International Affairs (Fiia) Author(s): Wolfgang Mühlberger Original Link: https://www.fiia.fi/en/publication/egypts-democratic-window-dressing The first round of parliamentary elections in October turned out to be symptomatic of a derailed democratic transition in Egypt. Mainly endorsing the return of authoritarian governance structures, they epitomize the...

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Dateline Egypt: Roadmaps, Refinancing, and Regional Roles

2015 Democracy and Politics Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Middle East Institute Paper Paul Salem Security and Counter-Terrorism

October 29, 2015 03:38 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Paul Salem Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/dateline-egypt-roadmaps-refinancing-and-regional-roles In the past ten days Egypt held a first round of parliamentary elections, announced renewed loan talks with the IMF, experienced new clashes with militants in the Sinai, and joined multinational talks to end the war in Syria. These headlines...

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Interest and Intrigue in Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections

2015 Council On Foreign Relations Democracy and Politics H. A. Hellyer Paper

October 21, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): H. A. Hellyer Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/interest-and-intrigue-egypts-parliamentary-elections Egyptians voted this week for the eighth time in four years—ten if you count runoffs. The most blatant characteristic this time appears to be rather unedifying: An abundant lack of interest in the formal exercise of the democratic process...

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The State of Alliances in Egypt’s Elections

2015 Carnegie Chritstopher J. Cox Democracy and Politics Paper

October 20, 2015 05:56 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Chritstopher J. Cox Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/61688 Elections for 60 of the bloc-list and 226 of the independent seats in Egypt’s new 596-seat unicameral parliament concluded on October 19. As it stands, 448 seats will be elected through independent candidate lists, another 120 seats will be elected through closed bloc or party...

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Egypt’s Elections Give Sisi Chance to Tighten Grip

2015 Andre Colling Democracy and Politics International Peace Institute Paper

October 16, 2015 05:53 am

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Source: International Peace Institute Author(s): Andre Colling Original Link: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2015/10/egypt-sisi-morsi-elections-muslim-brotherhood/ Two years after the military ousted the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government of President Mohammed Morsi, and nearly three years since the dissolution of the country’s parliament, Egypt is scheduled to hold a new round of...

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Egypt: The New Puritans

2015 Democracy and Politics Egypt Garrett Nada Islamic Movements and Institutions Khalil Al Anani Paper Wilson Centre

October 16, 2015 03:35 am

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Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Khalil al Anani, Garrett Nada Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/egypt-the-new-puritans Egypt’s Salafi Nour Party is the only Islamist party that will compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections on October 18 and 19. The party supported Egypt’s military during their 2013 crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, which has since...

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Taking On Egypt’s Big Bureaucracy

2015 Democracy and Politics Economy Maria Golia Middle East Institute Paper

October 15, 2015 05:55 am

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Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Maria Golia Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/taking-egypt%E2%80%99s-big-bureaucracy Since the 1990s, the need for streamlined procedures to facilitate business, trade and investment has grown to crisis proportions in Egypt. But the political will to deliver administrative reform was always lacking, not least because it would involve lay-offs...

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