| ID | 164981 |
| Title Proper | Counter-revolution as international phenomenon |
| Other Title Information | the case of Egypt |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Jamie Allinson ; Allinson, Jamie |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article argues that the case of the Egyptian 2011 revolution forces us to rethink accounts of counter-revolution in International Relations. The debate over whether the events of 2011–13 in Egypt should be considered a ‘revolution’ or merely a ‘revolt’ or ‘uprising’ reflects an understanding of revolutions as closed and discrete events, and therefore of international counter-revolution as significant only after revolutionary movements have seized sovereign power. Against this account, which maintains the idea of sovereignty as the boundary between domestic/social and international/ geopolitical phenomena, I argue that counter-revolutions can operate across boundaries during revolutionary situations before and to prevent revolutionary transformation and therefore affect whether a revolutionary sovereign power is established at all. Such counter-revolutions draw upon both the ideological inheritance of historical strategies of international ‘catch-up’, and the cross-border class relations that these different strategies bring into being. In the Egyptian case, the counter-revolution thus relied upon two factors deriving from this strategy: the ideological inheritance of Nasserism as a response to international hierarchy, and the integration of the post-Nasser Egyptian ruling elite with Gulf financial, and US security, networks. |
| `In' analytical Note | Review of International Studies Vol. 45, No.2; Apr 2019: p.320-344 |
| Journal Source | Review of International Studies Vol: 45 No 2 |
| Key Words | Revolution ; Egypt ; Counter-Revolution ; Arab Spring ; Historical Sociology |