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This document is page 15 of a larger file (Bates stamped HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023472) containing an article titled 'Political Order in Egypt' by Francis Fukuyama from 'The American Interest,' dated May-June 2011. The text discusses the political instability in the Middle East (specifically Egypt and Tunisia) through the lens of Samuel Huntington's theories, arguing that economic development without political institutionalization leads to instability. While part of a House Oversight file potentially related to investigations (often associated with Epstein or similar inquiries in this dataset context), the text itself is purely geopolitical commentary.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Francis Fukuyama | Author |
Author of the article 'Political Order in Egypt' published in The American Interest.
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| Samuel Huntington | Political Scientist / Author |
Author of 'Political Order in Changing Societies', whose theories are discussed in the text.
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| The American Interest |
The publication featuring the article.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' at the bottom of the page.
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May - June 2011
Publication of the article 'Political Order in Egypt'.
USA (implied publisher location)
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Subject of the article.
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Mentioned in the context of unfolding events (Arab Spring).
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General region discussed.
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Relationships (1)
Fukuyama analyzes Huntington's book 'Political Order in Changing Societies' in his article.
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"While academic political science has not had much to tell policymakers of late, there is one book that stands out as being singularly relevant to the events currently unfolding in Tunisia, Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries"Source
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"Attacks against the existing political order, he noted, are seldom driven by the poorest of the poor; they instead tend to be led by rising middle classes who are frustrated by the lack of political and economic opportunity"Source
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Article 3.
The American Interest
Political Order in Egypt
Francis Fukuyama
The American Interest
Political Order in Egypt
Francis Fukuyama
May - June 2011 -- While academic political science has not had
much to tell policymakers of late, there is one book that stands out as
being singularly relevant to the events currently unfolding in Tunisia,
Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries: Samuel Huntington’s
Political Order in Changing Societies, first published over forty years
ago.1 Huntington was one of the last social scientists to try to
understand the linkages between political, economic and social
change in a comprehensive way, and the weakness of subsequent
efforts to maintain this kind of large perspective is one reason we
have such difficulties, intellectually and in policy terms, in keeping
up with our contemporary world.
Huntington, observing the high levels of political instability plaguing
countries in the developing world during the 1950s and 1960s, noted
that increasing levels of economic and social development often led
to coups, revolutions and military takeovers rather than a smooth
transition to modern liberal democracy. The reason, he pointed out,
was the gap that appeared between the hopes and expectations of
newly mobilized, educated and economically empowered people on
the one hand, and the existing political system, which did not offer
them an institutionalized mechanism for political participation, on the
other. He might have added that such poorly institutionalized regimes
are also often subject to crony capitalism, which fails to provide jobs
and incomes to the newly educated middle class. Attacks against the
existing political order, he noted, are seldom driven by the poorest of
the poor; they instead tend to be led by rising middle classes who are
frustrated by the lack of political and economic opportunity—a
much to tell policymakers of late, there is one book that stands out as
being singularly relevant to the events currently unfolding in Tunisia,
Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries: Samuel Huntington’s
Political Order in Changing Societies, first published over forty years
ago.1 Huntington was one of the last social scientists to try to
understand the linkages between political, economic and social
change in a comprehensive way, and the weakness of subsequent
efforts to maintain this kind of large perspective is one reason we
have such difficulties, intellectually and in policy terms, in keeping
up with our contemporary world.
Huntington, observing the high levels of political instability plaguing
countries in the developing world during the 1950s and 1960s, noted
that increasing levels of economic and social development often led
to coups, revolutions and military takeovers rather than a smooth
transition to modern liberal democracy. The reason, he pointed out,
was the gap that appeared between the hopes and expectations of
newly mobilized, educated and economically empowered people on
the one hand, and the existing political system, which did not offer
them an institutionalized mechanism for political participation, on the
other. He might have added that such poorly institutionalized regimes
are also often subject to crony capitalism, which fails to provide jobs
and incomes to the newly educated middle class. Attacks against the
existing political order, he noted, are seldom driven by the poorest of
the poor; they instead tend to be led by rising middle classes who are
frustrated by the lack of political and economic opportunity—a
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