Egypt of Nasser and Sadat: The Political Economy of Two Regimes

by John Waterbury

Book Overview

A balance sheet of thirty years of revolutionary experiment, this work is a comprehensive analysis of the failure of the socialist transformation of Egypt during the regimes of Nasser and Sadat. Testing recent theories of the nature of the developing states and their relation both to indigenous class forces and to external pressures from advanced industrial societies, John Waterbury describes the limited but complex choices available to Egyptian policy-makers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691101477
• ISBN13: 9780691101477
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Understanding

An informative understanding of egyption political ideals of the time. I think I know to much now that I read the book.