I’ve decided to have a glance at recent developments of Turkey’s FP towards Syria and Egypt. Turkey’s position towards Syria Turkey’s position on the crisis in Syria is clear. Where in the first months of the Syrian crisis Turkey was cautiously criticising Assad, a year later, Turkey had developed a highly condemnatory rhetoric whenever the…
Earlier this year I’d written both about Egypt’s revolutionary episode and on Jack Goldstone’s theory of revolutions, as well as a post combining the theory to Egypt’s developments. In the third of these posts, I argued that Egypt’s revolutionary episode is in the phase of ‘further polarisation’ and ‘counter-revolution’, Whether there have been some signs…
A summary of Derya Göçer Akder’s article Theories of Revolutions and Arab Uprisings. Derya Göçer Akder, Theories of Revolutions and Arab Uprisings: The Lessons from the Middle East, Ortadoğu Etütleri, Volume 4, No 2, January 2013, pp.85-110. Introduction The article persuades us to rethink some of the ideas that are generally assumed about revolutions – lessons that…
Mohammed El-Nawawy and Sahar Khamis wrote an article, analysing the role of social media in the successful revolution in Egypt and the unsuccessful protests in Iran — unsuccessful in terms of failing to prevent the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, instead of Hossein Mousavi. Egypt had in its recent history a number of attacks on the government of Hosni Mubarak, and other…
Many people would not be suprised that the revolutionary events that have been defining Egypt over the last 2 years, have had a very significant impact on the Egpytian economy. This post attempts to highlight how the Egptian economy has been affected by the Revolution. Tourism Egypt has been well-known as being a popular…
Representative democracy (in my interpretation) functions in the way that elections are held, where people vote for the party or politician they best entrust to rule the country they live in (disregarding exceptions where people vote as a counterbalance or are nationals living abroad), taking into consideration the party’s/person’s competences in forming policies that would…
This is the third and final part of the ‘experiment’ in using the approach of bringing forward a practical case, highlighting relevant theories and finally applying the theories to the practical case at hand. In this case it is the study of the revolutionary episode in Egypt, from 2010 to now, and ongoing. McAdam, Tarrow…
