Origen, evolución y caída del régimen de Mubarak
This paper describes in political, sociological and economic terms the origin and evolution of Mubarak’s regime till its fall, including Mohamed Mursi’s election as president of Egypt. First, it places Mubarak’s period in power in its historical context, following Naser and Sadat’s regimes. Then it describes the interaction between the new regime’s economic and political proposals and the political and parapolitical responses on the part of Egyptian society. Finally it shows how the relative stability of the regime, lasting over twenty years and built on a combination of coercion and selective permissiveness, began to collapse, partly as a result of the effects of the economic liberalisation started in the 1990s on