Egypt’s foreign policy from Faruq to Mubarak

This chapter provides an overview of Egypt’s foreign policy in the period from 1936 to 2011, covering the eras of King Faruq and Presidents Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak. It gives an account of major events, patterns of foreign policy behavior, and dynamics of foreign policy decision-making. The chapter attempts to reveal and explain the main attributes of Egyptian foreign policy throughout the period and argues that geopolitical realities molded much of the aspirations and threat perceptions of Egyptian policymakers and that the foreign policy objectives they pursued were invariably linked to internal factors.