Euro-Mediterranean Relations After the Arab Spring: Persistence in Times of Change by Jakob Horst & Annette Jünemann & Delf Rothe

Author:Jakob Horst & Annette Jünemann & Delf Rothe [Horst, Jakob & Jünemann, Annette & Rothe, Delf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Regional Planning, Public Policy, European, Political Science, World
ISBN: 9781317139935
Google: oZMWDAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 30081638
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

1 This chapter is based partly on earlier German publications (Harders 2002, 2012). This contribution has benefitted from debates and critical comments of numerous Egyptian and German colleagues and friends to whom I am deeply indebted. I owe special thanks to the editors as well as Heba Amr Hussein, Daniel Kumitz, Hania Sobhy und Dina El-Sharnouby for their comments. I thank Daniel Kumitz for his translation of an earlier German version of this text and Hend Labib for helping with editing and formatting.

2 The following account is based on secondary analysis of available literature and qualitative interviews conducted in Cairo in 2011 and 2012. A note of caution is necessary, though. In order to assess possible changes in deep core beliefs, a different type of research would be necessary. So far, there is not much systematic data available about the perceptions, hopes and assessments of the broader population, ruling and oppositional groups alike. Thus, the realities of the daily formal and informal, individual and collective renegotiations of the Egyptian transformation are part of a much more complex, ambivalent and contradictory picture than this analysis can ever hope to draw.

3 If the Egyptian transformation can still be called a revolution or rather a popular mass movement, which turned into a coup for a second time between 2011 and 2013 is hotly contested inside and outside the country. Following McAdam/Tilly/Tarrow (1996: 165) I hold that Egypt went through different ‘revolutionary situations’ since 2011 but these processes did so far not create ‘revolutionary outcomes’. The whole process is called ‘transformation’ which means open-ended processes of social and political change.

4 As explained by Zyad el-Elaimi, Egyptian MP for the Social Democratic Party Egypt and member of a revolutionary youth group on 8 May 2012 during a presentation at the Free University Berlin.

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