Contents -- Preface -- 1 A Logic of Regime Stability -- 2 The Egyptian, Algerian, and Turkish Military Enclaves: The Contours of the Officers' Autonomy -- 3 The Pouvoir Militaire and the Failure to Achieve a "Just Mean" -- 4 Institutionalizing a Military-Founded System -- 5 Turkish Paradox: Islamist Political Power and the Kemalist Political Order -- 6 Toward a Democratic Transition?: Weakening the Patterns of Political Inclusion and Exclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.