During the second half of the twentieth century, the mainstream scholarship presented the democratization process as the outcome of domestic conditions not significantly influenced by actors outside the nation-state. With the end of the Cold War, this perspective was challenged as a result of the third wave of democratization, and the subsequent growth of the "good governance" discourse on the agenda of the international development establishment. The new perspective attached a more significant role to external factors in the democratization process than was originally conceptualized.
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"The book under review provides a rich empirical analysis of the international dimensions of democratization in Egypt ... . by furnishing a comprehensive historical overview of Egypt's struggle for democracy and ample empirical data on the international dimensions of Egypt's authoritarian resilience, Selim provides a valuable basis on which researchers interested in Egypt can build." (May Darwich, Middle East Journal, Vol. 70 (2), 2016)