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Military Presidents in Arab States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2011

Roger Owen
Roger Owen*
Affiliation:
History Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; e-mail: [email protected]
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The Arab world has experienced a large number of military presidencies since General Bakr Sidki's brief rule in Iraq in 1936. The phenomenon became of great significance beginning with Colonel Jamal ʿAbd al-Nasir's presidency in Egypt in the early 1950s, which established a model for similar regimes in Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and, at least initially, Libya under the self-promoted Colonel Muʿammar al-Qadhafi. The president who exchanged his uniform for a suit; an authoritarian style of political management in the name of a revolution against an old, foreign-dominated order; and the legitimacy obtained from laudable achievements in the international and economic sphere: these were all part of al-Nasir's influence and legacy.

Type
The Arab Uprisings of 2011
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , August 2011 , pp. 395 - 396
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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