Hazem Kandil, Cambridge University Lecturer in Political Sociology and Fellow at St. Catherine's College, presents his latest book: The Power Triangle: Military, Security, and Politics in Regime Change.
Iran, Egypt, and Turkey all experienced remarkably similar coup-installed regimes in the middle of the twentieth century, and shared comparable state-building ambitions. Despite these similarities, each followed a different trajectory: Iran became an absolutist monarchy that was overthrown from below; Turkey evolved into a limited democracy; and Egypt metamorphosed into a police state. What accounts for this divergence?
Date:
Friday, 21 October, 2016 - 11:30 to 14:00
Event location:
ARB, room 119