A History of Modern Libya

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Cambridge University Press, 26‏/03‏/2012 - 256 من الصفحات
Dirk Vandewalle is one of only a handful of scholars who have made frequent visits to Libya over the last four decades. His formidable knowledge of the region is encapsulated in his history of Libya which was first published in 2006. The history - based on original research and interviews with Libya's political elite - traces Libya's history back to the 1900s with a portrait of Libya's desert terrain, its peoples and the personalities that shaped it development. It then examines the harrowing years of the Italian occupation in the early twentieth century, through the Sanusi monarchy and, thereafter, to the revolution of 1969 and the accession of Qadhafi. The following chapters analyse the economics and politics of Qadhafi's revolution, offering insights into the man and his ideology as reflected in his Green Book. In the wake of the civil war and Qadhafi's demise, the time is ripe for an updated edition of the history which will cover the years from 2005 to the present. These were the years when Libya finally came in from the cold after years of political and economic isolation. The agreement to give up the weapons of mass destruction program paved the way for improved relations with the west. By this time, though, Qadhafi had lost the support of his people and, despite attempts to liberalize the economy, real structural reform proved impossible. This, as Vandewalle contends in the foreword to the new edition, coupled with tribal rivalries, regional divisions and a general lack of unity, paved the way for revolution and civil war. In an epilogue, the author reflects upon Qadhafi's premiership, the Green Book's stateless society and the legacy that he will leave behind.
 

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Introduction Libya the enigmatic oil state
1
Chapter 1 A tract which is wholly sand Herodotus
11
Chapter 2 Italys Fourth Shore and decolonization 19111950
24
Chapter 3 The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state 19511969
43
Chapter 4 A Libyan sandstorm from monarchy to republic 19691973
76
Chapter 5 The Green Books stateless society 19731986
96
Chapter 6 The limits of the revolution 19862000
137
Chapter 7 Reconciliation civil war and fin de régime 20032011
173
Epilogue Whither Libya?
210
Notes
215
Bibliography
227
Index
237
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Dirk Vandewalle is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of A History of Modern Libya (2006) and Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-Building (1998). He is the editor of North Africa: Development and Reform in a Changing Global Economy (1996) and Qadhafi's Libya: 1969-1994 (1995).

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