Good Governance and Civil-Security Relations: A Comparative Study of Turkey and Egypt

Developing the traditional civil-military relations approach to include security actors, the book compares the style of civil-security relations in both Egypt and Turkey. The volume comprehends the competition between civilian actors and military and security actors to impose control over the political regimes in transition and how this is related to the issue of good governance and democratization.

The Egyptian and Turkish cases are viably comparable in terms of the status of civil-security...