L'IDEOLOGIE DE LA REVOLUTION EGYPTIENNE
In: Politique étrangère: PE ; revue trimestrielle publiée par l'Institut Français des Relations Internationales, Band 22, Heft 40, S. 445-462
ISSN: 0032-342X
Was the Egyptian revolution simply a coup d'etat, or was it responsive to a specific ideology. Is this ideology definable & what are its practical applications. If, in July, 1952, the Egyptian military rulers, apparently inspired by Naguib, tried to show their disinterestedness by their attachment to the democratic regime, granting liberty to pol'al parties, the exterior evolution showed quickly, under Nasser, that the coup d'etat was in fact a revolution & showed an ideological aspect unknown in coup d'etats. Nasser, in effect, wished to connect the coup d'etat of 22 Jul 1952 with the distant past (1882); he wished to free Egypt from imperialist control with the help of the army, & tries now to give to Egypt, in the midst of its own changing soc structure a mission with 3 goals: (1) in the area of Arab nationalism, (2) in the Moslem world, & (3) on the African continent. These are doctrines that are confused & contradictory, but they are not far removed from the first objectives of Naguib & his associates. Opposition within Egypt was quickly throttled, & Nasser became the undisputed master of the nation. Arab nationalistic xenophobia reached its greatest satisfaction in the Suez conflict resulting from the nationalization of the Canal, though domestic policies had less spectacular results. The regime should not be condemned since its attempts to establish democracy have met with the same checks that have been faced in other areas & which are in a certain sense the fault of the West. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.