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Pratt, Nicola Christine and Rezk, Dina (2019) Securitizing the Muslim Brotherhood, legitimizing state violence and renewing authoritarianism in post-Arab spring Egypt. Security Dialogue, 50 (3). pp. 239-256. doi:10.1177/0967010619830043 ISSN 0967-0106.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010619830043
Abstract
Unprecedented levels of state violence against the Muslim Brotherhood and its widespread acceptance by Egyptians following the July 2013 military coup have been under-examined by scholars of both critical security studies and Middle East politics, reflecting implicit assumptions that state violence is unexceptional beyond Europe. This article explores how the deployment of such levels of violence was enabled by a securitization process in which the Egyptian military successfully appropriated popular opposition to Muslim Brotherhood rule, constructing the group as an existential threat to Egypt and justifying special measures against it. The article builds on existing critiques of the Eurocentrism of securitization theory, alongside the writings of Antonio Gramsci, to further refine its application to non-democratic contexts. In addition to revealing the exceptionalism of state violence against the Muslim Brotherhood and highlighting the important role of nominally non-state actors in constructing the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to Egypt, the article also signals the role of securitization in re-establishing authoritarian rule in the wake of the 2011 uprisings. Thus, we argue that securitization not only constitutes a break from ‘normal politics’ but may also be integral to the reconstitution of ‘normal politics’ following a period of transition.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Egypt -- History -- Coup d'état, 2013, Arab Spring, 2010-, Jamʿīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Security Dialogue | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0967-0106 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 June 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 50 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 239-256 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0967010619830043 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Pratt, Nicola Christine and Rezk, Dina (2018) Securitizing the Muslim Brotherhood, legitimizing state violence and renewing authoritarianism in post-Arab Spring Egypt. Security Dialogue . Copyright © 2018 Sage Publications Ltd. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 December 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 December 2018 | ||||||||
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