Alanna Torres-Van Antwerp is a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She has previously served as a Foreign Affairs Analyst, held Middle East research positions at the Political Instability Task Force and National Defense University's Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, and worked for international nongovernmental organizations in Eurasia and the Middle East. She was the recipient of a David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship for research in Egypt. She has authored articles in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization and Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel.
1. Authoritarian politics and founding elections; Part I. Members of the
Club or the Only Game in Town?: 2. Divided opposition in Egypt (1981-2011);
3. Authoritarian political opportunity structures in comparative
perspective; Part II. Phoenix from the Ashes: Party Formation and Electoral
Mobilization after Authoritarian Collapse: 4. Linking the authoritarian
landscape to party formation and political mobilization in Egypt's founding
elections (2011); 5. Party formation and political mobilization in
comparative perspective; Part III. Epilogue: 6. When the dust settles -
Authoritarian legacies beyond founding elections; 7. Authoritarian legacies
and the prospects for democratic consolidation.
