PERSPECTIVE| FES NEW YORK Egypt’s Regional Security Policy after the January 25 Revolution ABDUL-MONEM AL-MASHAT July 2012  After the ousting of the regime of President Mubarak, Egypt’s position in the region is at a crossroads facing several security challenges from neighboring countries such as Israel, Turkey and Iran, but also from its own domestic socio-economic and political dynamics.  Depending on the answers given to these challenges, the outcome will be a cooperative and peaceful Middle East, a disintegrative and conflictive Middle East, or an explosive and intolerable status quo.  Despite all odds, cooperative and integrative scenarios, based on negotiations and compromises would be more beneficial to the new generations in all regional parties. What is needed at this moment is a regional initiative toward this goal.