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Egypt's Civic Revolution Turns 'Democracy Promotion' On Its Head, Sheila Carapico
Egypt's Civic Revolution Turns 'Democracy Promotion' On Its Head, Sheila Carapico
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Did western political aid agencies encourage the 25 January uprising with their civil society promotion projects? Did they encourage mass mobilization against the regime, or perhaps tutor dissidents in how to organize grassroots opposition? At the same time as the United States and other NATO powers were providing economic and military assistance to the Egyptian regime, did they also foment popular defiance? Some people seem to think so; different narratives about foreign provocation of Egypt's uprising circulated in Arabic and in English.