| Description |
xxviii, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
5. The Green book's stateless society, 1973-1986 -- Revolutionaries, technocrats, and The Green Book as political primer -- The Green Book's economic and social directives -- Oil and development -- The revolutionary society -- Symbols, myths, Islam, and opposition -- Terrorism, adventurism, and confrontation with the West -- The revolutionary decade revisited -- 6. The limits of the revolution, 1986-2000 -- Curtailing revolutionary energy -- The Great Green Charter of Human Rights -- Protecting the regime : formal and informal means of power and control -- The economic sanctions and their impact -- Economic sanctions and oil policies -- Attempts at economic reform -- The lessons of failed reforms -- Confrontation, terrorism, and sanctions -- The revolution curtailed -- 7. Fork in the road : Libya in the 21st century -- The road to disarmament -- The West and Libya : diplomacy and reform -- Political economy of reform -- From Arab socialism to pan-African unity -- Libya in the twenty-first century and the shadow of the past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Preface -- Chronology, 1900-2005 -- List of acronyms -- Introduction : Libya, the enigmatic oil state -- 1. "A tract which is wholly sand-- " (Herodotus) -- Libya's geography -- The Ottoman period and the Sanusiyya -- European intrusions and the Young Turk revolt -- the Ottoman legacy -- 2. Italy's fourth shore and decolonization, 1911-1950 -- The Italian occupation, 1911-1923 -- Fascism and the Italian settler colony -- World War II, Italy's defeat, and the Great Power deliberations -- Legacies at the eve of independence -- 3. The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state, 1951-1969 -- Politics of avoidance : the reluctant monarchy -- The development challenges of the first decade -- The Libyan oil industry -- The unification of the kingdom -- The social impact of oil and the early seeds of revolution -- The monarchy in perspective -- 4. A Libyan sandstorm : from monarchy to republic, 1969-1973 -- Libya's young revolutionaries -- Popular revolution, participation, and legitimacy -- Charisma and rhetoric as mobilizational tools -- Oil and economic management -- The revolution on the eve of the 1973 oil crisis -- |
| Summary |
Libya is coming in from the cold, but for most of the three decades following Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's self-styled revolution in 1969, the country was politically isolated and labelled a pariah state. Dirk Vandewalle, one of only a handful of Western scholars to visit the country during this time, is intimately acquainted with Libya. He offers a lucid and comprehensive account of Libya's past, and corrects some of the misunderstandings about its present. The story begins in the 1900s with a portrait of Libya's desert terrain and the personalities that shaped its development. Professor Vandewalle then covers Libya's history during the Italian colonial period (1911-1943) and the monarchy that ruled between 1951 and 1969. He goes on to discuss the subsequent regime of Colonel Qadhafi and the economic, political, and ideological developments that he engendered. Finally, he describes the most recent events that brought Libya back into the international fold |
| Analysis |
Chronology |
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Foreign policy |
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History, 1901-1999 |
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History, 2000- |
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Libya |
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Overseas item |
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Political conditions |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-225) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Libya -- Foreign relations -- 1969-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88007985
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Libya -- History -- 1969- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87004481
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Libya -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87004469 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Libya -- Politics and government -- 1969- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076752
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| LC no. |
2006296140 |
| ISBN |
0521615542 (paperback) |
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0521850487 (hbk.) |
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