Playing the Game: Nasser, un personaj extrem de incomod
Playing the GAME: Nasser, an Extremely Inconvenient Character

Summary/Abstract: Between the mid-1950s and 1970, Egypt - one of the largest and most important countries in the area will call Middle East – was ruled by Naser. The study evaluates several district stages of his political career. Each of them clearly was more challenging than the previous one. Each of them was focused on a complex agenda. Each of them offered Nasser - and the rest of the Arab and Muslim world - not only lots of risks, but important windows of opportunity. Above all, Nasser managed to make several serious - even if not too successful - attempts to take (with regional means and regional ambitions) control of The Game. He never managed to accomplish such a goal, because the world was strongly dominated by the superpowers and, above all, by the very logic of the Cold War. Anyhow, Nasser managed something else: to give back the Arab world a sense of dignity and pride. But he never managed to be real independent: the logic of the Cold War was stronger than Nasser’s ambitions and dreams and, in the final years of his role, the Soviets were - clearly states Cristina Nedelcu - stronger than ever before in Egypt (and, as a direct consequence, in the entire Middle East).

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