Routledge handbook on contemporary Egypt

"Investigating key features of contemporary Egypt, this volume includes Egypt's modern history, politics, economics, the legal system, environment, and its media and modes of cultural expression. It examines Egypt's capacities to meet developmental challenges, ranging from responding to globalization and regional competition to generating sufficient economic growth and political inclusion to accommodate the interests and demands of a rapidly growing population. The macrohistory of Egypt is complemented by the microhistories of specific institutions and processes that constitute separate sections in this handbook. The chapters revolve around political economy: it is shaped by the people and their abilities, political and legal institutions, organization of the economy, natural and built environments and culture and communication. Politics have been overwhelmingly authoritarian and coercive since the military seized power in 1952, consequently the contributions address both the causes and consequences of unbalanced civil-military relations, military rule and persisting authoritarianism in the political society. This multidisciplinary handbook serves a dual purpose introducing readers to Egypt's history and contemporary political economy and it serves as a comprehensive key resource for postgraduate students and academics interested in modern Egypt"--

Introduction : Occupation, Independence, Revolution / Anthony Gorman -- Building the Egyptian State? Infrastructural Systems, Education and Urbanization, 1919 to 2011 / Mohamed Gamal el-Din -- The Ideological Roots of Authoritarianism / Roel Meijer -- Egypt's Foreign Policy from Faruq to Mubarak / Nael Shama -- Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt : The Case of the Student Movement / Hatem Zayed, Nadine Sika and Ibrahim Elnur -- Framing the Past : Historian, State and Society / Anthony Gorman -- Introduction: The Evolution of Military Rule in Egypt / Sarah Smierciak -- Genesis of Coup-Proofing in Egypt : Civil-Military Relations Under King Faruq and Beyond / Hicham Bou Nassif -- The Fingers of the "Invisible Hand" : Egypt's Government Institutions / Jan Claudius Völkel -- Islamism in Egypt / Noha Mellor -- Civil Society and Revolution, 2000-Present / Hafsa Halawa -- Egypt's Post-Uprising Foreign Policy / Timothy Kaldas -- Introduction : A Brief History of Nation, State and Market / Amr Adly -- State-Business Relations in Neoliberal Egypt : The Global Political Economy of Subordinate Integration / Roberto Roccu -- Why Egypt's Trade Policy Failed to Improve its External's Comp…