The role of global actors on the failed transition to democracy in Egypt

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Egypt, democracy, Arab spring, transition, coup’d'etat, counter-revolution, Middle East and North Africa (MENA),

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The paper aims to roles of the global actors on the failed transition to democracy in Egypt. In this study, the negative political influence of powerful states on Egypt evaluated in terms of democracy. The current social inequality in the region continued to increase in the 2000s. Egypt's authoritarian leader were not able to establish the relations between state structures and citizens in the last decade. The global actors had crucial roles on the continuation the authoritarian regime in Egypt. They were easily able to get their demands from Hosni Mubarak. When the time was at the end of 2010, the popular uprising movements affected the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region deeply. Egypt was one of the most remarkable countries in the region where Hosni Mubarak ousted. The people in Egypt wanted to have a democratic rule in order to have solutions to the social inequality, favoritism, and corruption. Normally, the powerful global actors should have played positive role so as to enable democratic transition. The United States of America and the European Union needed a more proactive policy along with the acceptability of a democratic criteria. Unfortunately, external actors were silent in the following the process in the first place because they were caught unprepared for the Arab Spring and did not expect such a result. Later on, foreign powers supported the counter-revolution in Egypt when they saw that the things did not go as they would have liked. They expressed their support most clearly in the post-coup statements discussing military and financial issues.

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Şuayip Turan, Cankiri Karatekin University

Academician Dr. at International Affairs.

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2018-12-21

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Turan, Şuayip. (2018). The role of global actors on the failed transition to democracy in Egypt. Journal of Human Sciences, 15(4), 2357–2398. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/5598

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