Egypt as a Globalist Power: Mapping Military Participation in Decolonizing Internationalism, Repressive Entrepreneurialism, and Humanitarian Globalization Between the Revolutions of 1952 and 2011
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/ Paul Amar
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By intervening in the 2011 Revolution and moving to assert control over state and society during the subsequent transitional period, the Egyptian military became visible again not just as a defense institution and coercive apparatus operating in domestic space, but as a regional and international actor. Much recent scholarship on and press coverage of Egypt since the uprisings of 2011 have neglected the vibrant and contentious history of the country’s participation in globalist politics and international interventions. In this light, this study reflects upon three types of globalism decolonizing developmentalism, humanitarian militarism, and UN-centered internationalism—articulated by the state, political elites, and transnational social movements in Egypt since the 1950s. This piece describes globalization in Egypt from military and diplomatic history perspectives. Here I begin to develop a theoretical apparatus that aims to identify mechanisms that shape convergence and disjuncture between modes of developmentalism and internationalism in three periods: the Third Worldist (1956–1973), Neoliberal (1973–2000), and Human Security (2000–2011) epochs.