ABSTRACT
It is at these low points, filled with domestic tension, that Egyptian foreign policy makes its outwardly startling turns. I believe that this was the case in 1967, as Arab Socialism exhausted itself, and in 1973, as the initial promises of the Corrective Revolution went unfulfilled. I suggest that in 1977 it was the foundering of the political and economic liberalizations of the October Working Paper that pushed Sadat into making the most startling turn of all, a peace initiative to Jerusalem. The starting point for such an analysis must be in the victory of the October war of 1973, a victory that proved so ephemeral.
