Steven Cook
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Steven A. Cook is the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Thwarted Dreams: Violence and Authoritarianism in the New Middle East, will be published by Oxford University Press.
The so-called “deep state” is like dark matter. There is wide belief in countries like Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan that it exists, but no one has ever actually seen it. The term has now—rather [...] More
The U.S. and Egypt remain allies although relations have been strained since the 2011 Egyptian revolution, which resulted in the ousting of then-President Hosni Mubarak. Since then there was a brief [...] More
