Civil-security relations in post-revolution Egypt

This chapter offer an analysis to the equation of civil-security relations in post-revolution Egypt. The chapter analyzes how the Egyptian military managed to control Egyptian politics in the transitional period and its role in exploiting the polarization and the absence of compromises between Egyptian liberals and Egyptian Islamists to eventually seize power after ousting the then elected president Mohamed Morsi. The chapter continues with explaining the new dynamics in the civil-security relations in post-2013 era in Egypt where the military together with security forces have nationalized all public and political platforms in Egypt playing both economic and political roles that has rendered Egyptian politics to pre-Mubarak era.