This book analyses the tumultuous political, security and economic developments in Egypt from the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak to the 2015 consolidation of power by President Abdelfattah el-Sisi.

Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- /Emile Hokayem -- Chapter One The transition: from Mubarak's fall to the 2014 presidential election -- /Professor Nathan J. Brown -- The revolution and its contradictions -- Egypt's first transition -- The Morsi presidency -- After 3 July: the state reassembled -- Conclusion: the Sisi presidency -- Chapter Two Courts and police in revolution -- /Professor Ellis Goldberg -- The police -- The courts -- The constitution and elections -- Morsi as president -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three The military -- /Dr Zeinab Abul-Magd -- From socialism to neoliberalism, 1950S-2000S -- Winning a revolution, 2011-13 -- Sisi versus malcontents -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four The Muslim Brotherhood -- /Yasser El-Shimy -- A revolutionary opportunity for an evolutionary movement -- One against all -- The state is the enemy; long live the state! -- The army -- The police and the judiciary -- The Brotherhood survives the coup -- Chapter Five Egypt's non-Islamist parties -- /Michael Wahid Hanna -- Defining non-Islamism -- Structure and design -- Fracture, dissipation and triangulation -- Brotherhood maximalism -- The death of possibility -- Chapter Six Civil society -- /Dr H.A.Hellyer -- Youth -- NGOs -- Labour -- Media -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven A revolution without a revolutionary foreign policy -- /Gamal Hassan -- Egyptian foreign policy under Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak -- The challenges of the Arab Spring -- SCAF rule: forces of continuity vs inconsistent attempts at change -- Foreign policy under Morsi -- 30 June and beyond: business as usual? -- New challenges -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight Militarisation and security challenges in Egypt -- /Hebatalla Taha -- North Sinai: between militant and military violence -- Beyond Sinai: the spread of violence throughout Egypt -- The Libyan front: spillover and intervention -- The Sisi strategy and the militarisation project -- Conclusion -- Chapter Nine The Egyptian economy -- /Mohamed El Dahshan -- Egypt under the SCAF: short-term calculations -- Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood: the wrong experiments at the worst possible time -- The rise of Sisinomics -- 2015: the Egypt Economic Development Conference and future plans -- The army's economy -- Insufficient social-justice and economic-inclusiveness efforts -- Conclusion.