Sociologist Amitai Etzioni was a leading organizational theorist when I was a doctoral student. At age 83 he is still writing things worth reading, including this article about Egypt in The National Interest.
Etzioni makes the argument that the Western press is ignoring Egypt's primary problem, which is economic. This echoes what Daniel P. Goldman (aka Spengler) has written about Egypt's troubles.
Egypt has many people, little oil, and needs to make a living off tourism which it cannot do when the country suffers from unrest and a government whose beliefs drive away affluent Western tourists. Read what Etzioni writes about Egypt's problems.
