Adaptable autocrats regime power in Egypt and Syria

Joshua Stacher examines how executive power is structured in each country to show how these preexisting power configurations shaped the uprisings and, in turn, the outcomes. Presidential power in Egypt was centralized. Even as Mubarak was forced to relinquish the presidency, military generals from t...

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Main Author: Stacher, Joshua 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cairo American University in Cairo Press [2012]
©2012
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