
Revolution, Reform, And Resilience Comprise The Respective Fortunes Of Modern Iran, Turkey, And Egypt. Although The Countries All Experienced Coups With Remarkably Similar Ambitions, Each Followed A Very Different Trajectory. Iran Became An Absolutist Monarchy That Was Overthrown From Below, Turkey Evolved Into A Limited Democracy, And Egypt Turned Into A Police State. In The Power Triangle, Hazem Kandil Attributes The Different Outcomes To The Power Struggle Between The Political, Military, And Security Institutions. Coups Establish A Division Of Labor, With One Group Of Officers Running Government, Another Overseeing The Military, And A Third Handling Security. But Their Interests Begin To Vary As Each Group Identifies With Its Own Institution. Politicians Wish To Rule Indefinitely; Military Officers Prefer To Return To Barracks After Implementing The Needed Reforms; And Security Men Scramble To Maintain The Privileges They Acquired In The Post-coup Emergency. Driven By Conflicting Agendas, These Partners In Domination Struggle Over Regime Control. Using Comparative Historical Sociology, Kandil Demonstrates How Regimes Are Constantly Shaped And Reshaped Through The Recurrent Clashes And Shifting Alliances Between The Team Of Rivals In This Power Triangle. The Power Triangle's Realist Approach To Regime Change Shows That A Clear Explanation Of Pivotal Events In Iran, Turkey, And Egypt Is Impossible Without A Firm Grasp Of The Power Relations Within Each Country's Ruling Bloc.
Hazem Kandil investigates why three nations with similar coup-driven origins—Iran, Turkey, and Egypt—diverged into vastly different political systems. Kandil, a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, utilizes a comparative historical sociology framework to analyze the internal dynamics of ruling blocs. He argues that the divergent trajectories of these states are primarily determined by the shifting power struggles between three core institutions: the political leadership, the military, and the security apparatus.
What You Will Find
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Experts recognize this work as a significant contribution to the study of authoritarianism and civil-military relations in the Middle East. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which provides a rigorous, realist examination of institutional power dynamics.
Page Count:
336
Publication Date:
2016-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190239212
ISBN-13:
9780190239213
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