By pursuing the Camp David Accords, Sadat aimed to achieve certain strategic goals for Egypt, including a new alignment with America, improved negotiating power of the Egypt versus Israel in the region, foreign capital for its new economic initiatives and regional independence. While Sadat was able to achieve some of these goals through the agreements, others were not. I will examine the years leading up to, during, and after the Camp David Accords, and how internal and external pressures pushed Sadat to accept the particular path he chose for Egypt. In particular, I will examine superpower relations, Egypt's economic situation, and its relations with the Arab world as the main factors leading to the bilateral agreement between Egypt and Israel. Additionally, I will examine Sdat's major political decisions, and how they increased or diminished his negotiating power at Camp David, as well as the eventual conditions. These include Sadat's decision to break relations with the Soviet Union, the start (and end) of the 1973 war with Israel, his trip to Jerusalem, and his behavior in negotiations with Israel . Finally, I will examine how Sadat's political maneuvers have translated into Egypt's international position to this day. Any study of modern Egyptian history naturally begins with Nasser, the first Egyptian president after the Free Officers' Revolution in 1952. Nasser was the leading proponent of pan-Arabism. , an ideology that called for close ties between Arab states, presumably under the leadership of Egypt, one of the most powerful states in the Middle East at the time. Compared to other states in the Arab world, Nasser's Egypt was stable, militarily powerful, and independent of foreign influence. From this middle-of-paper position, as attractive to the West, his ability to challenge Israel for American influence never materialized, and he was never able to "block Israeli hegemony because that Egypt managed to move towards full alignment with America, a series of miscalculations and mistakes, including ending relations with the Soviet Union and the Arab world and underestimating of American commitment to Israel, meant that Egypt never realized the camp's gains. David that Sadat had hoped for. His subsequent assassination was the product of public discontent with what were increasingly seen as poor conditions under which the peace had been concluded, and military discontent with the way in which Sadat had co-opted the October War to political purposes. Thus, the Camp David treaties failed to achieve the goals that Egypt had publicly set, nor to achieve the goals that Sadat had personally set..