Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi
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Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left the country a failed state and a major security headache for Europe. Gaddafi's police state has been replaced by yet another dictatorship, amidst a complex…
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In Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi, Ulf Laessing sets out to explain why a country with an embarrassment of riches descended from a highly popular revolution into a failed state.
He focuses on the militias that sprang up to overturn the Qaddafi regime but then pursued separate agendas after the fighting ended.
In the process, the parameters of politics became less about democracy and the future direction of the country and more about control of the nation’s resources. Laessing’s focus on the militias makes two very important points that many authors fail to note.
First, the post-Qaddafi conflict is mostly…
From Ronald's list on explaining the Libyan Quagmire.
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