Název:
Vojenský komponent kontrarevoluce - Případ Egypta
Překlad názvu:
The Military component of the Counterrevolution - Egypt case- The root causes of the deep-state and its military hardcore counterattack against Egypt uprising.
Autoři:
Saad, Mohamed ; Kučera, Tomáš (vedoucí práce) ; Ludvík, Jan (oponent) Typ dokumentu: Diplomové práce
Rok:
2019
Jazyk:
eng
Abstrakt: In the course of time, the Egyptian army has developed a complicated network of economic interests as a privileged establishment, and independent from civilian oversight or political surveillance. This dissertation argues that; the well-established and long lasting independent economic interests may turn the military establishment to an independent stakeholder and closed, conservative group within the society seeks to preserve its own privileges by controlling over the political power and resist any external oversight including the democratic reforms that may create a threat to these privileges. Such military establishment is a direct threat to any democratic transition. In this case, the armies securitize the political sphere raising the democratic reforms as foreign conspiracy and an existential threat to its privileges and raise the nationalism and xenophobic rhetoric as it needs to create a political justification for their security practices that aim to crush the opposition and secure the political power. I suppose that the Egyptian case shows causal relations between the economic interests of the military establishment and the nationalism as a dominant ideology. Such military is leaning to not only control the political power, but it aims to militarize the societal values and control over the...
Klíčová slova:
Counter-revolution; Deep State; Mamlukism; military economic interests; military nationalism; Officers republic; Praetorianism; Uprising