Tracking the “Arab Spring”: Egypt’s Failed Transition

Issue Date October 2013
Volume 24
Issue 4
Page Numbers 45-58
file Print
arrow-down-thin Download from Project MUSE
external View Citation

The July 2013 military takeover has squashed democratic hopes in Egypt, at least for now. How did things go so wrong, and what lessons are to be drawn from this lamentable episode?

About the Author

Nathan J. Brown is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

View all work by Nathan J. Brown

Further Reading

Volume 19, Issue 3

Islamist Parties and Democracy: Why They Can’t be Democratic

Read the full essay here. This article makes a case of the basic distinction between Islam and Islamism and presents three central arguments: 1. through religious reforms and a rethinking…

Volume 19, Issue 3

Islamist Parties and Democracy: Are They Democrats? Does It Matter?

The journalistic and policy communities have been alive with speculation as to whether Islamist groups involved in politics—including Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Palestine’s Hamas— are true believers in democracy or…

Volume 1, Issue 4

An Arab Path to Democracy?

A review of Unruly Corporatism: The Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt, by Robert Bianchi.