The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2015
434 pages
978-0-19-025733-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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.
Brian McQuinn is currently completing a PhD in anthropology on the 2011 uprising in Libya, as a Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was previously the assistant director of the Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program and a conflict prevention advisor for the United Nations Development Programme.
Content
Introduction
Note on Transliteration
Frequently Used Acronyms
Part 1: The Revolution and its Governance
Chapter 1: Libya's Uncertain Revolution
Dirk Vandewalle
Chapter 2: The Corridor of Uncertainty: the National Transitional Council and legitimacy in a time of war
Dr Peter Bartu
Chapter 3: NATO 's Intervention
Frederic Wehrey
Chapter 4: The Fall of Tripoli: Part 1
Peter Cole with Umar Khan
Chapter 5: The Fall of Tripoli: Part 2
Peter Cole with Umar Khan
Chapter 6: The United Nations Role in the Transition
Ian Martin
Chapter 7: Confronting Qadhafi's Legacy: transitional justice in Libya
Marieke Wierda
Part 2: Sub-National Identities and Narratives
Chapter 8: History 's Warriors: the Emergence of Revolutionary Battalions in Misrata
Brian McQuinn
Chapter 9: The war in the Jabal Nafusa
Wolfram Lacher and Ahmed Labnouj
Chapter 10: Bani Walid: Loyalism in a Time of Revolution
Peter Cole
Chapter 11: Libya 's Tebu: Living in the Margins
Rebecca Murray
Chapter 12: Finding Their Place, Libya 's Islamists during and after the 2011 uprising
Mary Fitzgerald
Chapter 13: Barqa Reborn? Eastern Regionalism and Libya 's Political Transition
Sean Kane
Chapter 14: Tuareg militancy and the Sahelian shock waves of the civil war in Libya
Yvan Guichaoua
