US Policy towards Egypt after 2011"

Abstract

Egyptian-American relations went through varying stages of cooperation and differences over its contemporary history, and despite all the talk about how special Egyptian - US relations are, and the growing common interests between them, yet these relationships had undergone many sharp turns at different stages.

  With the beginning of the second decade of the twenty first century, many transformations happened, particularly after the change Egypt witnessed in the system of governance, and security, economic and political developments and at all levels.

  The US relations with Egypt in the era of the Mubarak regime (1980-2011) was very strong, there was cooperation in all fields and exchange of delegations and trade, and cooperation in the security, military, commercial, cultural and other fields of activities, thus leading to justify the revolution against Mubarak’s Regime by accusing him of being an agent of the United States and prioritize the U.S.  Interests on Egypt’s expense, particularly with regard to normalization with the Zionist entity.

 When the crowds of Egyptians moved in 2011, demanding change and the overthrow of the regime within the wave of massive movements in several Arab countries, dubbed the characterization (the Arab Spring), the United States was closely monitoring their reactions that were  varied between positive and negative at various levels.