16 / 12 / 2011
‘Protected democracy’ making a comeback in Egypt?
"It is not clear why Egypt's ruling military is determined to retain residual authority after formally ceding power to civilians, writes Yezid Sayigh, a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his interest include the resistance and reinvention of authoritarian regimes. But the armed forces' insistence on retaining their institutional prerogatives threatens to distort Egypt's transition and any emerging democracy". Read more
By Democracy Digest, 16 December 2011