Divining Divisions in Egypt’s Deep State
Guest post by Scott Williamson Several leaked conversations have been causing embarrassment for the regime of Egyptian President…
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Mass Death Sentences Reflect Egypt’s Eliminationist Strategy
Guest post by Mohamad Elmasry Last Monday’s mass death sentences against 529 Egyptian civilians accused of killing a single…
Machine Coded Events Data and Hand-Coded Data
Guest post by Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld Working with events data has long posed a fundamental dilemma. On one hand,…
Egypt and the Road to Civil War
By Joe Young Egypt is on the road to civil war, even if policy makers don’t like the…
Why Extremists Thrive During Civil Wars
By Barbara F. Walter Last week I posed two questions, asking why al Qaeda has enjoyed such success in…
Why Egypt May Avoid Civil War
By Lionel Beehner The question on many minds right now is whether Egypt is sliding into a civil war.…
Links on Egypt
By Taylor Marvin The violent clearing of pro-Morsi demonstrations by security forces have killed at least 525 and injured…
Why a Coup in Egypt, and Why Now?
By Barbara F. Walter Last week’s puzzler posed two questions. First, why has the number of coups in Sub-Sahara…
Will the Egyptian Coup Affect Other Islamist Groups?
Guest post by Brent Sasley In the aftermath of the Egyptian military’s overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government,…
Coup Be Coup
By Steve Saideman Fittingly, I was in Budapest when Egypt’s democracy started to come to an end. Why…