Transitional justice policy in authoritarian contexts: The case of Egypt | Brookings
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he transitional justice field traditionally presumes that transitions occur from violent, authoritarian rule to liberal, democratic rule. Such transitions are, in fact, applicable to only a few cases in the vast number of transitions that have occurred in the last few decades Transitional justice ha
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- he transitional justice field traditionally presumes that transitions occur from violent, authoritarian rule to liberal, democratic rule. Such transitions are, in fact, applicable to only a few cases in the vast number of transitions that have occurred in the last few decades
- Transitional justice has increasingly struggled to provide realistic remedies for societies reeling from conflict or decades of authoritarian rule
- Egypt’s “deep state” institutions, for instance, play an important role in its so-called transitional society
- constitutes a set of weak institutions inherited from the pre-transition period
- loses sight of the current state of affairs
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