HE. Helmy El Namnam, Minister of Culture declared Dr. Alaa Abdul Hafeez, Chairman, Dept. of Political Sciences and General Administration and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Winner of the 2015-2016 Incentive State Award in the field of political systems for his 2014 book: Compromise Between Security Considerations and Democratic Practices: The United States Experiment as an Example. Dr. Alaa explained that the book handles the crises of national security which lead to collision between the requirements of security and the requirements of democracy. He indicated that non-democratic political systems give priority to the requirements of national security at the expense of the principles of democratic rule.