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Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism is the first book to intellectually engage with regime discontinuity and the implications this rupture determines at the structural political and economic level, domestically and along the international spectrum by additionally questioning the institutionalisation of nature along the legitimation process. After the military coup of 2013, Egypt entered a phase of internal transition, where authorities attempted to forge a legitimation claim with former and new actors that emerged in the post-2013 panorama. However, this eventually led to a micro-structural re-organisation of infrastructural relations which impacted the overall identity of the regime turning it into a fluid authoritarianism which added a non-exclusivist personalist sub-trait to the identity of the system. This resonated not exclusively at the political but also economic level. Based on extensive research and integrated fieldwork conducted with key-profiles based in the US, Europe, the United Kingdom and Lebanon, amongst whom the Muslim Brotherhood Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism provides a ground-breaking intellectural and empirical analysis on the rise of fluid authoritarianism in Egypt in the struggle for political legitimacy. It discusses implication along the political and economic spectrum with a critical attention to the agenda on sustainable development and the institutionalisation of nature and the environment along the reorganisation of the machine.