Introduction: From Revolution to Regime Change
PART I - IRAN: ROYALISM AND REVOLUTION
Chapter 1. A One Man Coup: February 1921
Chapter 2. A Coup de Théâtre: August 1953
Chapter 3. The Road to Persepolis and Back: August 1953-January
1978
Chapter 4. The Coup that Never Was: January 1979
Chapter 5. Check and Balances: The Realist Version: February 1979
and After
PART II - TURKEY: THE LIMITS OF MILITARY GUARDIANSHIP
Chapter 6. The Founding Coup: March 1924
Chapter 7. The Corrective Coup: May 1960
Chapter 8. The Communiqué Coup: March 1971
Chapter 9. The Passive Revolution: September 1980
Chapter 10. The White Coup: June 1997
Chapter 11. Aborted Coups? November 2002 and After
PART III - EGYPT: THE POLITICS OF REPRESSION
Chapter 12. Militarism and its Discontents: March 1954
Chapter 13. Blood, Folly, and Sandcastles: June 1967
Chapter 14. Becoming a Police States: October 1973
Chapter 15. The Long Road to a Short Revolution: October
1981-January 2011
Chapter 16. The Resilience of Repression: January 2011 and
After
Conclusion: Revolution, Reform, and Resilience
Hazem Kandil is the Cambridge University Lecturer in Political Sociology and Fellow of St Catharine's College. He studies power relations in revolution and war in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.
"This is a fascinating, persuasive, and highly original analysis of
power struggles within states between the political elite, the
armed forces, and the security police - Kandil's 'power triangle'.
The subject-matter is recent Middle Eastern states, on which Kandil
is highly authoritative. Yet his model could be fruitfully applied
to non-democratic states throughout the world. This is the best
political sociology I have read in years."
--Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA
"In this tour de force of comparative historical sociology, Kandil
addresses the puzzle of 'revolutions from above' and their
different outcomes across the Middle East in the mid-twentieth
century. With forensic skill and an informed theoretical grounding,
as well as a deep historical understanding of the processes
involved, he analyses the regime dynamics of the military coup
makers in Iran, Turkey and Egypt. In doing so, he provides an
insightful and highly
plausible account of the very different trajectories that developed
from the initial coups d'état."
--Charles Tripp, Professor of Politics, SOAS, University of London
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