Floundering Stability : : US Foreign Policy in Egypt.

• Author: Kamel, Amir Magdy.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2023.; Ã2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- One. The US Idea of Stability -- Economics and Stability -- Defining the Stability Policy -- The USA-Egypt Case Study -- The Approach of This Book -- Book Structure -- Two. An Economics and Stability Framework to Assess US-Egyptian Ties -- Stability-through-Economics -- US Foreign Policy Making -- The Stability Policy in Egypt -- The Qualitative Analysis -- The Complementary Quantitative Analysis -- Scholarly Contribution -- Three. Tracing the Trajectory of the Stability Policy -- The Stability Policy After World War II -- Was the Stability Policy Faltering under Nasser? -- Sadat's Conducive Stability Policy Stance -- The Stability Policy Legacy -- The Link to the Stability-through-Economics Theory -- Four. Mubarak's First Decade and Sadat's Continued Influence -- Changing of the Guard-but Not the Policy -- Continuing Sadat's Clampdown on Voices of Dissent -- US Support and the Opposition -- The First Decade's Worth of Data Are Aligned -- Mubarak's First Decade: A Symptom of Legacy -- Five. Twenty Years of Economic Liberalization and Political Constraint -- Six. January 25 and an Overarching Quantitative Analysis -- The US and Support for Mubarak in the Run-up to January 25 -- Mubarak's Ouster and the US -- An Overall Quantitative Analysis of Mubarak's Egypt -- The Post-Cold War and Gulf War Context -- The Caveated 1990s Economic Growth and Political Suppression -- Clinton's Shift in Focus Still Maintained the Stability Policy -- 9/11 and US-Egyptian Ties -- Clamping Down on Protesting Sentiment and the US -- The Stability Policy, Kefaya, and April 6 -- Bringing Together the Statistics and the Continued Failure of the Stability Policy -- Concluding Thoughts -- On the Stability-through- Economics Theory -- The Theory and US-Egyptian Ties.

Reflections on the Quantitative Analysis -- What This Means for US Foreign Policy in Egypt -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.