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The Power Triangle - Military, Security, and Politics in Regime Change (Hardcover)
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The Power Triangle - Military, Security, and Politics in Regime Change (Hardcover)
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Iran, Egypt, and Turkey all experienced remarkably similar
coup-installed regimes in the middle of the twentieth century, and
shared comparable state-building ambitions. Despite these
similarities, each followed a different trajectory: Iran became an
absolutist monarchy that was overthrown from below; Turkey evolved
into a limited democracy; and Egypt metamorphosed into a police
state. What accounts for this divergence? In The Power Triangle,
Hazem Kandil attributes the different outcomes to the power
struggle between the political, military, and security components
of each regime. Following a coup, officers immediately divide their
labor: one group runs government, another supervises the military,
and the third handles security. Their interests initially overlap,
but begin to vary as each group becomes identified with its own
institution. The politicians wish to remain in power indefinitely,
but need the support of the custodians of violence; military
officers prefer to withdraw from politics after implementing the
needed reforms, since their prerogatives are usually guaranteed
regardless of regime type, and politicization corrupts the corps;
and security men strive to consolidate authoritarianism in order to
maintain the inflated privileges they have acquired during the
emergency period following the coup. Driven by conflicting agendas,
the three partners struggle to control the regime. Through
comparative historical analysis, Kandil demonstrates that the new
regime is shaped and reshaped through the recurrent clashes and
changing alliances between the team of rivals in this 'power
triangle.' Bringing realism into domestic politics, The Power
Triangle demonstrates that we cannot gain a clear understanding of
pivotal events in Iran, Egypt, and Turkey without a firm grasp of
the balance of power within the ruling bloc of each country.
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