POLS G4845 Lecture 5: Egypt Reading notes
18 Apr 2016
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Alterman egypt in transition insights and options for us policy fall of 2011. Egyptian politics: csis egypt experts agree that egypt"s change in government was not result of country reaching tipping point, triggered by 2010 manipulated parliamentary elections and potential rise of gamal mubarak, but mostly. Military-industry complex in construction, manufacturing, agriculture: not like turkish military, which has kemalist ideology, us sees military as crucial to bilateral relationship because they are most competent, but egyptian military distressed at us efforts to condition aid to. Recommendations: long-term goals, not short-term events build contacts in all areas of. Egyptian politics, support building of democratic institiutions: ease tensions between egypt/israel/turkey, nurture nat security strategy and invest in military training for crowd control, us-egypt free trade agreemnt as goal. Jon alterman dynamics without drama egyptian foreign policy. 1970"s shift from soviet block towards us and sadat"s policies with israel.
