Egypt And American Foreign Assistance 1952 1956

Author : J. Alterman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403976000

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Egypt and American Foreign Assistance 1952–1956 by J. Alterman Pdf

From the ground up the story of missed opportunities, mixed messages, and mutual frustrations in American relations with Egypt at a seminal time. Unprecedented in its drawing on Egyptian official sources, Hopes Dashed sheds new light on the difficulties and challenges of a nascent relationship characterized by missed opportunities, mixed messages, and mutual frustrations. However beneficial the intentions of those on the ground, their desire for Egyptian economic development was stymied by bureaucratic obstacles both in Egypt and the United States. And as Egypt became embroiled in the Cold War, policy decisions increasingly were made at higher levels by officials more concerned with geopolitical and Arab-Israeli issues and less how U.S. assistance could help the domestic political economy of Egypt. Alterman compellingly shows how the interests of both countries diverged to eventually undermine an early American attempt at economic assistance.

Author : J. Alterman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349388319

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Egypt and American Foreign Assistance 1952–1956 by J. Alterman Pdf

From the ground up the story of missed opportunities, mixed messages, and mutual frustrations in American relations with Egypt at a seminal time. Unprecedented in its drawing on Egyptian official sources, Hopes Dashed sheds new light on the difficulties and challenges of a nascent relationship characterized by missed opportunities, mixed messages, and mutual frustrations. However beneficial the intentions of those on the ground, their desire for Egyptian economic development was stymied by bureaucratic obstacles both in Egypt and the United States. And as Egypt became embroiled in the Cold War, policy decisions increasingly were made at higher levels by officials more concerned with geopolitical and Arab-Israeli issues and less how U.S. assistance could help the domestic political economy of Egypt. Alterman compellingly shows how the interests of both countries diverged to eventually undermine an early American attempt at economic assistance.

Author : J. Alterman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403976000

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Egypt and American Foreign Assistance 1952–1956 by J. Alterman Pdf

From the ground up the story of missed opportunities, mixed messages, and mutual frustrations in American relations with Egypt at a seminal time. Unprecedented in its drawing on Egyptian official sources, Hopes Dashed sheds new light on the difficulties and challenges of a nascent relationship characterized by missed opportunities, mixed messages, and mutual frustrations. However beneficial the intentions of those on the ground, their desire for Egyptian economic development was stymied by bureaucratic obstacles both in Egypt and the United States. And as Egypt became embroiled in the Cold War, policy decisions increasingly were made at higher levels by officials more concerned with geopolitical and Arab-Israeli issues and less how U.S. assistance could help the domestic political economy of Egypt. Alterman compellingly shows how the interests of both countries diverged to eventually undermine an early American attempt at economic assistance.

Author : Muhammad Abd el-Wahab Sayed-Ahmed
Publisher : Laam
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4955935

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Nasser and American Foreign Policy, 1952-1956 by Muhammad Abd el-Wahab Sayed-Ahmed Pdf

Author : Muhammad Abd el-Wahab Sayed-Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9774242645

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Nasser and American Foreign Policy by Muhammad Abd el-Wahab Sayed-Ahmed Pdf

Author : Yahia Shawkat
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781649030337

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Egypt's Housing Crisis by Yahia Shawkat Pdf

A provocative analysis of the roots of Egypt’s housing crisis and the ways in which it can be tackled Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the economy, and popularize or embarrass a ruler. Housing is political. Almost every Egyptian ruler over the last eighty years has directly associated himself with at least one large-scale housing project. It is also big business, with Egypt currently the world leader in per capita housing production, building at almost double China’s rate, and creating a housing surplus that counts in the millions of units. Despite this, Egypt has been in the grip of a housing crisis for almost eight decades. From the 1940s onward, officials deployed a number of policies to create adequate housing for the country’s growing population. By the 1970s, housing production had outstripped population growth, but today half of Egypt’s one hundred million people cannot afford a decent home. Egypt's Housing Crisis takes presidential speeches, parliamentary reports, legislation, and official statistics as the basis with which to investigate the tools that officials have used to ‘solve’ the housing crisis—rent control, social housing, and amnesties for informal self-building—as well as the inescapable reality of these policies’ outcomes. Yahia Shawkat argues that wars, mass displacement, and rural–urban migration played a part in creating the problem early on, but that neoliberal deregulation, crony capitalism and corruption, and neglectful planning have made things steadily worse ever since. In the final analysis he asks, is affordable housing for all really that hard to achieve?

Author : William J. Burns
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791498064

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Economic Aid and American Policy toward Egypt, 1955-1981 by William J. Burns Pdf

Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1955 decision to barter Egyptian cotton for Soviet bloc weaponry thrust Egypt onto center stage in the Cold War in the Middle East. What Egypt needed most, and what the United States was uniquely equipped to provide, was economic aid. For the Egyptian government--eager to take rapid strides toward economic development but crippled by a burgeoning population, a paucity of arable land, and a meager reserve of foreign exchange--American economic aid promised to serve as an enormously important crutch. For American policymakers, economic assistance appeared to be an ideal means of developing American influence in Egypt. Few aid relationships in the last three decades can match the drama and significance of the U.S.-Egyptian experience. This study shows how the American government attempted to use its economic aid program to induce or coerce Egypt to support U.S. interests in the Middle East in the quarter century following the 1955 Czech-Egyptian arms agreement. William J. Burns has analyzed recently released government documents and interviews with former policymakers to throw light on the use of aid as a tool of American policy toward the Nasser regime. He also offers valuable observations on the role of the American economic assistance program in the Sadat era.

Author : Dina Jadallah
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857728913

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US Economic Aid in Egypt by Dina Jadallah Pdf

Economic aid is one of the cornerstones of the Egyptian-American relationship, and plays a significant role in promoting US policy objectives in the Middle East. Focusing on the latter half of Hosni Mubarak's rule, Dina Jadallah argues that, through its aid policy, the US has attempted to use a reforming and democratising narrative to transform Egypt into a stable "market democracy" that would be aligned with US interests in the region. This aim has been pursued in conjunction with one that promoted a comprehensive "warm peace" with Israel. By highlighting the opposition within Egypt to US aid, Jadallah analyses the key issues that came to the fore during the 2010/11 protests in the country and led to the downfall of Mubarak. Extending her analysis into the post-revolutionary period, the author provides interviews with regime insiders and prominent critics, inside state institutions and outside, who actively challenged the regime. This enables her to assess the different perceptions of US aid both under Mubarak and in the current political situation, contributing to an incisive analysis of modern Egypt and its relations with its superpower ally in the region.

Author : Glenn E. Perry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216097365

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The History of Egypt by Glenn E. Perry Pdf

Providing a valuable resource for readers seeking information on all periods of Egyptian history, this book covers Egypt starting from ancient times and continuing through the medieval Islamic period to focus on the events of the last 100 years, including the aborted revolution of 2011. Egypt has experienced tumultuous events in recent years, especially starting with the uprisings and revolution of 2011. This second edition of The History of Egypt not only provides readers with in-depth information on events of the last decade—such as the Arab Spring, the removal of Hosni Mubarak from office, and the protests against Mohamed Morsi's presidency—but also provides key background with chapters addressing previous periods of the country's history, starting from pre-Islamic times to pharaonic to Byzantine. The volume offers an objective history of Egypt that is uniquely appropriate for a high school audience. This expanded and extensively updated second edition provides new content and media photographs that help bring recent events to life for readers without previous knowledge about the topic. It also includes coverage of important events in long-ago Egyptian history that lends valuable perspective to events in the 21st century, such the nation's transformation into a Muslim and Arab country and Egypt's post-1778 imperialism and modernization through World War I.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000058932483

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Review of U.S. Assistance Programs to Egypt by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia Pdf

Author : Amy J. Johnson
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081563014X

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Reconstructing Rural Egypt by Amy J. Johnson Pdf

Johnson's book provides the rich and untold story of the architect behind Egypt's inspired and highly successful social reform policies. The Rural Social Centers of the German-educated Ahmed Hussein were the cornerstones of his project initiatives, and these centers integrated social services through complete community participation. His programs flourished and were used as models for rural development projects worldwide. After the 1952 revolution, Hussein's influence waned, and he refused to participate in Gamal `Abd el-Nasir's development schemes. `Abd el-Nasr's eventual obliteration of Hussein's reform projects led to Hussein's resignation. Although he never again became involved in public life, Hussein created a school of thought in Egypt that endures today. Johnson chronicles current efforts of several organizations to revive Hussein's methods and reform agenda.

Author : Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538157367

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Historical Dictionary of Egypt by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Egypt, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Author : Anne Mariel Zimmermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349950003

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US Assistance, Development, and Hierarchy in the Middle East by Anne Mariel Zimmermann Pdf

What does US aid “buy” in the Middle East? Drawing on extensive primary source research, this book examines the role and consequences of US aid to three countries in the Middle East. The author argues that the political survival strategies of incumbent leaders in Egypt, Israel, and Jordan shaped not only the type of aid that these countries received from the US, but also its developmental and geopolitical impact. Leaders who relied heavily on distributing selective benefits to their ruling coalitions were more likely to receive forms of US aid that complemented their distributive political economies and undermined the state’s developmental capacity, which simultaneously rendered them more dependent on US resources, and more likely to cede fragments of their sovereignty to their major donor. Non-distributive leaders, however, could reap the full benefits of highly discretionary and technologically sophisticated aid, incorporating it into developmental policies that rendered them progressively less dependent on Washington—and better able to say “no” when it was in their best interest.

Author : Robert Anthony Waters
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810862913

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Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations by Robert Anthony Waters Pdf

The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease, and tribal, racial, and religious violence are all too common in Africa. So too is Americans' lack of concern about the people of a continent that suffers from these tragedies, as well as their government's support for African governments that treat their people as prey instead of citizens. The Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations encompasses the relationship between the two from the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the George W. Bush administration, with particular emphasis on the Cold War. It focuses on political and economic aspects of the relationship and includes cultural relations. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations.

Author : Reem Abou-El-Fadl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108475044

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Foreign Policy as Nation Making by Reem Abou-El-Fadl Pdf

A comparison of Turkey's and Egypt's diverging foreign policies during the Cold War in light of their leaderships' nation making projects.