Amy Austin Holmes

Broschiertes Buch

Coups and Revolutions

Mass Mobilization, the Egyptian Military, and the United States from Mubarak to Sisi

Beschreibung

In 2011, Egypt witnessed more protests than any other country in the world: the beginning of a revolutionary process that would unfold in three waves of revolution, followed by two waves of counterrevolution. In addition to providing new and unprecedented empirical data, the book makes two theoretical contributions. First, a new framework is presented for analyzing the state apparatus in Egypt that is based on four pillars of regime support which can either prop up or press upon whoever is in power: 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 introduces the concept of a coup from below in contrast to the revolution from above that took place under Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Autor

Amy Austin Holmes is an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as an Associate Professor of Sociology at the American University in Cairo and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. She is the author of Social Unrest and American Military Bases in Turkey and Germany since 1945. Having spent a decade living in the Middle East through the period known as the Arab Spring, she has published numerous articles on Egypt, Turkey, Bahrain, and the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Syria. She has written about human rights violations including the Rabaa/Nahda massacre which she witnessed in August 2013; the crackdown on civil society; as well as the issue of US military aid to Egypt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780197585801
• ISBN-10: 0197585809
• Artikelnr.: 61541604