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By recasting the discussion in broader historical and geographical terms, this chapter advances two arguments. Firstly, while neoliberal reforms under Mubarak certainly accelerated this process, a gradual unravelling of hegemony on the national scale was already taking place at least since the 1970s. Secondly, both the global food crisis and the global financial crisis are better seen as triggers which interacted with the socio-economic devastations produced by two decades of reform. This turned a latent hegemonic crisis into an actual one, thus making the 2011 revolution possible.
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Roccu, R. (2013). From Hubris to Debris: Global Crisis and the End of the Mubarak Regime. In: The Political Economy of the Egyptian Revolution: Mubarak, Economic Reforms and Failed Hegemony. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137395924_6
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