The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future [Hardcover]

The 2011 Libyan Uprisings is a thematic investigation of how pre-existing social, regional, tribal, and religious fissures influenced the trajectory of the 2011 Libyan Uprisings and an analysis of what this means for the post-Qadhafi future.Introduction: the Center and the Periphery; Jason Pack 1. Civil Activism and the Roots of the 2011 Uprisings; George Joff? 2. Dynamics of Continuity and Change; Youssef Mohammed Sawani 3. The Post-Qadhafi Economy; Ronald Bruce St John 4. The Role of Outside Actors; Ambassador Richard Northern and Jason Pack 5. The Rise of Tribal Politics; Wolfram Lacher 6. The South; Henry Smith 7. Islamists; Noman Benotman, Jason Pack, and James Brandon Afterword: Libya  A Journey from Extraordinary to Ordinary; Lisa Anderson

Jason Pack has assembled articles by both new and well-known experts on Libya to produce a book of consistently high quality . . . Both timely and excellent, The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future examines the causes and evolution of the Libyan revolution and will help those struggling to understand Libya's difficulties in building stable political structures that might finally allow its people to benefit from its oil and gas resources . . . It will help policymakers, businessmen and analysts. - The Majalla

Careful study of the region's history and the aftermath of the uprisings against Colonel Gaddafi suggest that peripheral forces in Libya are, as they often do, resisting impositions from the centre. That is the central thesis of a collection of essays The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future, edited by Jason Pack of Cambridge University . . . Pack & Co make a convincing case that central government, supported by the western allies and their aid agencies, must 'localise' (devolve) power by giving the various strongmen a stake in the administration of justice, the economy and the development of public services. Only then, they al“.