After the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat in 1981 Egypt was ruled under the state of emergency. The exceptional policy, initially introduced as a temporary measure, became the norm and a central pillar that underpinned the resilience of Mubarak’s authoritarian rule (1981-2011). This thesis investigates: how did the state of emergency become a permanent condition of the Egyptian sociopolitical reality and how did its perpetuation relate to resilience of the authoritarian Egyptian regime over 30 years? On the theoretical level, the research draws from two schools of securitization theory: Copenhagen and Paris. It addresses securitization process as a part of wider processes of governance. By adding Michel Foucault’s thoughts on governmentality and biopolitical optimization as well as Giorgio Agamben’s conceptualization of the state of exception the thesis introduces and applies an innovative conceptual truth-exception-resistance model, the T-E-R model.    «

After the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat in 1981 Egypt was ruled under the state of emergency. The exceptional policy, initially introduced as a temporary measure, became the norm and a central pillar that underpinned the resilience of Mubarak’s authoritarian rule (1981-2011). This thesis investigates: how did the state of emergency become a permanent condition of the Egyptian sociopolitical reality and how did its perpetuation relate to resilience of the authoritarian Egyptian regime over 30 y...    »