Geopolitics
Beyond Economics: Egypt’s Political Play at the D8 Summit
Egypt hosted the 11th D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation Summit in Cairo. The D8, established in Istanbul in 1997, focuses on economic cooperation between Muslim majority developing countries, and this summit was held under the theme of “Investing in Youth and Supporting SMEs,” a topic of particular focus for the member states’ developing economies with youthful populations.
The summit itself would have been a fairly routine event, a regular summit of the bloc to discuss regular economic
