https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx en-us 2023-12-02 22:29:08 UTC 2023-12-04 00:35:44 UTC hello@padlet.com ncalles244_ https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2811482693 2023-12-02 22:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2811482693 ncalles244_ https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2811987751 2023-12-03 21:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2811987751 ncalles244_ https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2812022292 Considering our class’s discussions on journalists in Turkey, I decided on reading a socialist journalist’s position on the Sisi coup. As we found in Turkey, socialist journalists are always critical of the government, and so I can trust Hamalawy, who Egyptian and a socialist, to report without bias.

Furthermore, his report on Sisi made me reflect on other readings we had in this class. He found that the Egyptian military had long been entrenched in government since the time of Mubarak, and this played a huge role in how Sisi was able to come to power. ]]> 2023-12-03 22:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2812022292 ncalles244_ https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2812027279 Motives
1.Corporate Self-interest: The article mentions how the military was worried that continuous popular unrest from the Arab Spring was threatening to the military and their business assets in Egypt
2. National interest: It can be argued that there was a national interest, as the military claimed that it stood there to protect the country from “terrorism.” This was mainly propaganda and guise for political crackdowns, as the article mentions

Means:
1. Coup Method- Called the “Coupvolution,” the military worked with civil society organizations to stage protests against Morsi, and then used the protests as an opportunity to seize power.

Opportunities:
2. Civilian government dependent in military: Sisi was already the Minister of Defense, with other military officers in positions of government. They were in position to take over Morsi
3. Civilian government discredited: Morsi failed to bring the social and economic changes that the Egyptian masses wanted from the Arab Spring. This made Morsi unpopular by the coup happened.

Inhibiting motives:
1. Fear of coup failure: Considering that the Egyptian people have already overthrown one military dictator, there were precautions taken by the military to ensure they had popular support before they launched their coup. This was seen with the “coupvolution,” a Bonapartesque maneuver, where the military pretends to be acting on behalf of the revolution

Capacity-reducing factors:
1. The article mentions that historically the Egyptian military was very divided, especially in the time of Nasser and Sadat, however during the Mubarak regime, the military were given large sectors of public industry, ensuring loyalty to the government. This means that factionalism in the military has pretty much disappeared in favor of corporatism.

Negative factors:
1. Civilian government has legitimacy: This part is true in Egypt, and is largely why Sisi made himself president in 2014.
2. Operational: it was argued in the article that the police and secret police may not be loyal to the military, but Hamalawy disproved this by demonstrating how the military has dominant power over these sectors. ]]> 2023-12-03 22:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ncalles244_/u7v93bzyhmiy4rcx/wish/2812027279