Yasser El-Shimy

The Middle East’s New Battle Lines

2018 Carnegie Egypt Foreign Relations Islamic Movements and Institutions Military Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Security and Counter-Terrorism Yasser El-Shimy

June 01, 2018 19:53 pm

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Source: Carnegie Middle East Center Author(s): Yasser El-Shimy Original Link: https://carnegie-mec.org/2018/05/18/middle-east-s-new-battle-lines-pub-76402 Riyadh and its Gulf allies view Cairo as a pivotal security partner. With the largest – and, arguably, most effective – standing military in the Arab world, Egypt has offered to become the ultimate bulwark of Gulf Arab national security. At...

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Democracy and Politics Economy Expert Foreign Relations Human Rights Security and Counter-Terrorism Yasser El-Shimy

January 30, 2018 00:03 am

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Yasser El-Shimy was a visiting research fellow at ECFR, where he conducted research on EU-Egyptian relations in light of the latter’s socio-political situation. He has earned his PhD from Boston University in International Relations and Comparative Politics. His most recent research focuses on the roles of the military and the Muslim Brotherhood in the failure

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Egypt on the Edge: How Europe Can Avoid Another Crisis in Egypt

2017 Anthony Dworkin Centre For Security Studies Economy Egypt Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Yasser El-Shimy

June 20, 2017 03:40 am

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Source: Centre For Security Studies Author(s): Yasser El-Shimy, Anthony Dworkin Original Link: http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/articles/article.html/e1f7c8c5-4f38-449b-b704-28f1284d79da Summary Europe’s current policy towards Egypt is dominated by immediate migration concerns and commercial opportunities. But this short-sighted approach offers few benefits and...

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Cairo’s Crude Crisis

2016 Carnegie Economy Paper Yasser El-Shimy

March 30, 2016 05:55 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Yasser El-Shimy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/63178 Low oil prices are heaping added pressure on Egypt’s currency crisis. While common wisdom holds that the finances of fuel-importing nations, such as Egypt, stand to benefit from declining energy prices, the net impact for Cairo’s economy is surprisingly negative. At least in the short...

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Did Sisi Save Egypt?

2016 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Nathan J. Brown Paper Yasser El-Shimy

January 25, 2016 03:46 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Yasser El-Shimy Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/01/25/did-sisi-save-egypt-pub-62587 Five years ago, the leaders of Egypt’s protest movement shocked themselves by successfully bringing down President Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power since before many of them were born. In those days, it was not unusual to hear talk of...

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