Hemmed In or Libya since Independence

Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline

Author: Thomas M Callaghy

Provides a critical examination of African and international responses to Africa's economic decline of the last two decades, especially the links between economics and politics.

Deborah Brautigam

Beautifully written and full of enormously useful detail. . . . I haven't seen anything comparable that brings both economic and political perspectives together in providing a review of Africa's crisis.

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Libya since Independence: Oil and State-Building

Author: Dirk Vandewall

Although Libya and its current leader have been the subject of numerous accounts, few have considered how the country's tumultuous history, its institutional development, and its emergence as an oil economy combined to create a state whose rulers ignored the notion of modern statehood. Dirk Vandewalle supplies a detailed analysis of Libya's political and economic development since the country's independence in 1951, basing his account on fieldwork in Libya, archival research in Tripoli, and personal interviews with some of the country's top policymakers.

Table of Contents:

	List of Acronyms
	Preface
	Note on Transliteration
	Chronology, 1951-1996
Ch. 1	Introduction: Issues and Framework	3
Ch. 2	The Distributive State	17
Ch. 3	Shadow of the Past: The Sanusi Kingdom	41
Ch. 4	From Kingdom to Republic: The Qadhafi Coup	61
Ch. 5	Thawra and Tharwa: Libya's Boom-and-Bust Decade	82
Ch. 6	Shadow of the Future: Libya's Failed Infitah	142
Ch. 7	Oil and State-Building in Distributive States: The Libyan Contribution	169
	Bibliographical Note	191
	Selected Bibliography	202
	Index	219