Plagues of Egypt – the COVID-19 crisis and the role of securitization dilemmas in the authoritarian regime survival strategies in Egypt and Turkey

Plagues of Egypt – the COVID-19 crisis and the role of securitization dilemmas in the authoritarian regime survival strategies in Egypt and Turkey

authoritarianism

COVID-19

discurcive hegemony

Egypt

monopolization

regime survival strategies

securitization

securitization dilemma

selective securitization

Turkey

The research looks into the authoritarian regime survival strategies in Egyptand Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, it examines howthe autocratic rulers in both countries dealt with the securitization dilemmacaused by the coronavirus outbreak. It applies securitization theory and theconcept of selective securitization to argue that although both Abdel Fattahel-Sisi’s and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rule were at some point expected to beshaken by the pandemic, the COVID-19 securitization dilemmas had animportant role in helping to prolong the autocratic directions of theirrespective countries. Additionally, the article demonstrates that thesecuritization of the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt and Turkey follows acertain political pattern where every crisis constitutes an opportunity forexpanding the regimes’ powers at the expense of citizens’ rights.

Grančayová, Michaela

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 1 (2021); 69-97

2788-2993

2788-2985

Institute of International Relations Prague

2021-03-01

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

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eng

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