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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In a 7 March 2012 article in the Washington Post, prominent journalist and Middle East expert David Ignatius wrote that Egypt was sliding toward ruin. 1 His pessimistic assessment was based on the developing security situation, or lack of it. Security was lacking at the street level and beyond. Once the Arab world's most powerful country, Egypt's economy has since been shattered, and its security situation badly deteriorated. Political power struggles continue to rage and the compass of the nation's foreign policy has been lost. Security experts well recognize multiple simultaneous spirals of violence and believe that Egypt is on its way to becoming a failed state.
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