# Egyptian Revolution 2011

> Egyptian Revolution 2011 is mapped as the regime threshold: it reorders legitimacy, institutions, property, coercion, and membership when an old order can no longer reproduce itself.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:revolutions-transitions:egyptian-revolution-2011` |
| Family | Revolutions & Political Transitions |
| Domain | History |
| Kind | event |
| Archetypal function | The Regime Threshold |
| Epistemic status | sourced_claim; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Egyptian Revolution 2011 belongs to the **Revolutions & Political Transitions** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Egyptian Revolution 2011 reorders legitimacy, institutions, property, coercion, and membership when an old order can no longer reproduce itself, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Egyptian Revolution 2011, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Regime Threshold.** Egyptian Revolution 2011 is mapped as the regime threshold: it reorders legitimacy, institutions, property, coercion, and membership when an old order can no longer reproduce itself.

## Gift

opens previously impossible political futures; through Egyptian Revolution 2011, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

unleashes civil war, terror, restoration, or new concentrated rule; Egyptian Revolution 2011 can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Egyptian Revolution 2011 to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Regime Threshold enters through Egyptian Revolution 2011. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Egyptian Revolution 2011 becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Egyptian Revolution 2011; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **mobilizes — Tunisian Revolution:** Tunisian Revolution mobilizes Egyptian Revolution 2011 by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Sudanese Revolution:** Egyptian Revolution 2011 distributes costs to Sudanese Revolution by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Nonviolence:** Nonviolence mobilizes Egyptian Revolution 2011 by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **legitimizes — Martin Luther King Jr.:** Egyptian Revolution 2011 legitimizes Martin Luther King Jr. by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Egyptian Revolution 2011 from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Egyptian Revolution 2011 is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: cultural_historical, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Egyptian Revolution 2011: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Revolution](https://www.britannica.com/topic/revolution-politics) — Encyclopaedia Britannica, ongoing. Comparative conceptual background; supplement with case-specific scholarship.
- [V-Dem Dataset and Codebook](https://www.v-dem.net/data/the-v-dem-dataset/) — V-Dem Institute, 2026. Comparative measurement of democratic institutions; indicators remain model-based measures.
- [Charter of the United Nations](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text) — United Nations, 1945. International institutional order, sovereignty, security, and cooperation.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
