The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath
Peter Cole, Brian McQuinn
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25 Feb 2021 UK
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9781787384958
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This book offers a novel, incisive and wide- ranging account of Libya' s ' 17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e. g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e. g. Beni Walid) or political (e. g. the Muslim Brotherhood) took its own path into the uprisings and subsequent conflict of 2011, according to their own histories and relationship to Muammar Qadhafi' s regime. The story of each group is told by the authors, based on reportage and expert analysis, from the outbreak of protests in Benghazi in February 2011 through to the transitional period following the end of fighting in October 2011. They describe the emergence of Libya' s new politics through the unique stories of those who made it happen, or those who fought against it. The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath brings together leading journalists, academics, and specialists, each with extensive field experience amidst the constituencies they depict, drawing on interviews with fighters, politicians and civil society leaders who have contributed their own account of events to this volume.
' By explaining the mosaic of Libya' s various sub-national loyalties and identities and their origins, The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath provides a useful antidote to day-to-day media coverage, which sometimes reduces Libyan political disputes to a binary struggle between Islamists and secularists, or East and West, or to tribal differences. It underlines the difficulty of forging a new political and economic framework that recognizes these differences but channels them into a pluralistic and tolerant vision. ' * The Times Literary Supplement * ' . . . a timely acknowledgment that Libya' s chemistry is older than the laboratory Qaddafi fashioned. The book traces not only the colonel' s demise, as many others have done, but the appearance of a lesser-known new cast. Written almost entirely by foreign experts, some of whom know the different factions intimately, it is the most detailed account I have read of the old forces shaping new Libya. ' * Nicholas Pelham, New York Review of Books * ' This is an important book that deserves a wide readership. With more than a dozen books published on the Libyan revolution, this is the first in which the contributors share extensive professional experience, a thorough knowledge of the literature, and recent fieldwork in Libya. The result is a detailed, nuanced account of the revolution and its aftermath. ' * Ronald Bruce St John, author Libya: Continuity and Change and Libya: From Colony to Revolution * ' The most complete picture we have yet had of the Libyan revolution and its aftermath . . . a compelling and troubling read. ' * Justin Marozzi, The National * ' Libya' s revolution was a complex story of multiple uprisings from geographically, ideologically and tribally distinct areas. . . Cole and McQuinn' s contributors offer compelling narratives that portray the main actors and the rivalries within and between each of these camps. ' * Survival journal *
Peter Cole was a Senior Analyst on Libya with the International Crisis Group (ICG) during the revolution and the ensuing transitional government, providing policy advice and background briefings to the UN, EU, governments, companies, NGOs and most major media outlets. Prior to his work with ICG, Peter completed an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. Brian McQuinn is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Oxford, after having completed a PhD in anthropology on the 2011 uprising in Libya, as a Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellow at the same university. He was previously the assistant director of the Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program and a conflict prevention advisor for the United Nations Development Programme.
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ISBN-13: 9781787384958
Published: 25 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 432

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