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.
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.
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.
'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*
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