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| Named Person: | Gamal Abdel Nasser; Gamal Abdel Nasser |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kirk J Beattie |
| ISBN: | 0813384540 9780813384542 |
| OCLC Number: | 28549167 |
| Description: | x, 260 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction. Theoretical Bases of the Analytical Framework. Toward a Framework for Analyzing Autonomous States. The Search for Civil Hegemony. Organization of the Study -- 2. The Major Competitors for Hegemony. Egypt's National Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. The Political Arena -- 3. Hegemonic Struggle in the Military. Military-Historical Background. Background of the Free Officers. Officers with Partisan Ties. Formation of the Free Officers Movement. Civilian Politicians' Perceptions of the Free Officers. Prelude to the July Revolution. Civilian Participation in the July Revolution. Foreign Forces Influencing the Coup -- 4. From Coup to Revolution. The Coup. Postcoup Policy Parameters and Changes. Officers Turned Policymakers. RCC Encounters with Civilian Hegemonic Contenders, 1952-1954. Overview of the Relations Between the RCC and Civilian Organizations. Personal Power Struggles and Hegemonic Conflict in the Military. Foreign Influences Affecting the Events of March. Final Confrontation with the Brotherhood -- 5. Nasser's Pursuit of National and Social Revolutions: 1954-1960. Completing the National Revolution. International Reactions to Egypt's New Foreign Policy. Political-Economic Impact of the National Revolution: The Economic Upshot. Carrying the Arab Nationalist Banner. Consolidation of Power in Political Society. Efforts to Harmonize State-Society Relations for the Social Revolution. Conflict in Other Arenas of Political and Political Society. Impact of the "Social Revolutionary" Policies -- 6. The Travails of Building a New Hegemonic Bloc. The Shift to a "Socialist" Development Strategy. In Search of a Hegemonic Doctrine. Construction of Nasser's "Civilian Coalition" Setting Up the Arab Socialist Union. Nasser's Organizational Offensive. Consequences of the Charter's Ideological Ambiguities. Pushing the Arab Application of Scientific Socialism. Transformation of the ASU by Sabri. Extension of ASU Vanguard Control to Professional Organizations. Reactions to Socialism in Political and Civil Society. The Foreign Reaction -- 7. Impact of the June 1967 War. Impact of the War on Nasser. The Defeat's Impact on Ideological Debate. The March 30 Declaration: Reconstruction of the ASU. Post-Naksa Regime Debate and Political Change. Postwar Economic Policies. Nasser's Final Moves on the International and Domestic Chessboard. |
| Responsibility: | Kirk J. Beattie. |
Abstract:
Kirk Beattie's analysis focuses on the origins and consequences of political-ideological struggle in Egypt, which pitted liberal democrats, transitional authoritarians, Marxists, and Islamic fundamentalists against one another for control of the state and Egypt's future. Beattie examines the political stagnation that resulted and that spurred the Free Officers to seize power in 1952. He then investigates the military transitional authoritarianism of the officers in power. Beattie illustrates how Nasser engineered the establishment of an autonomous state. That state afforded considerable decision-making latitude but at the same time compelled Nasser to search for a new ideological formula and to build new political institutions to overcome the obstacles created by intraregime, civilian, and foreign opponents trying to block his political economic development strategies. Based on hundreds of interviews with key actors representing a cross-section of ideological viewpoints, this book provides a detailed analysis of government and opposition decisionmaking during the Nasser period. Beattie succeeds in clarifying the motivations and beliefs of the Egyptian elite and the real and perceived constraints that shaped their behavior.
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