title: Militarizing the Nation: The Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt
author:  Zeinab Abul-Magd 
description: No other work provides such a detailed account of the military's penetration of the economy or the state administration, nor of the causes or consequences of that penetration. The topic is of major importance and the range of sources drawn upon is without parallel. (Robert Springborg, author of <i>Mubarak's Egypt: Fragmentation of the Political Order</i>)<br /><br />The insidious connection between saving and militarizing the nation is the subject of this fascinating investigation of Egypt's current travails. Abul-Magd offers an impressive and meticulously documented account of this bleak process, from the establishment of military dominance in 1952 to its resurgence after 2011, and concludes with prescriptions on how to reverse it. <i>Militarizing the Nation</i> is essential reading for those lamenting the fate of the 2011 Arab revolts. (Hazem Kandil, University of Cambridge)<br /><br />Abul-Magd has written an empirically-rich and thoughtfully organized book. By capitalizing on many newly-available sources of information and contextualizing this in a broader theoretical literature on militarization, she has made the otherwise opaque subject of Egyptian military politics into a comprehensible case study. This text will be useful to students of Middle East politics but also to comparativists interested more broadly in political economy and critical military studies. (Shana Marshall, George Washington University)<br /><br />A must-read...Unlike the flurry of publications after January 2011 that viewed the Egyptian military from the outside as a black box making crucial decisions (i.e. to let Mubarak fall and then govern, and then to deal with and later topple the Muslim Brotherhood), this book provides more context. It describes how the Egyptian army, especially after the 1980s, managed to entrench itself in the state apparatus, the economy (even during times of privatization), and society. This book supersedes all previous empirical works in this area of study. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the decisions of the Egyptian military after 2011, and the enduring weight of these actions. (Philippe Droz-Vincent, Middle East Institute)<br /><br />Essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary Egyptian military state. (<i>Choice</i>)
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  Egypt and American
  
  
  Foreign Assistance, 1952–1956
  
  
  Egypt and American
  
  
  Foreign Assistance, 1952–1956
  
  
  Hopes Dashed
  
  
  _Jon B. Alterman_
  
  
  EGYPT AND AMERICAN FOREIGN ASSISTANCE, 1952–1956
  
  
  Copyright © Jon B. Alterman, 2002.
  
  
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