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Libya since Independence : Oil and State-building /

"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. Di...

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Autor principal: Vandewalle, Dirk J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of acronyms
  • Preface
  • Note on transliteration
  • Chronology, 1951 1996.
  • - Part 1. Introduction and theory. Chapter 1. Introduction: issues and framework
  • Situating the debate
  • The Libyan monarchy and Jamahiriyya
  • Overview
  • Chapter 2. The distributive state
  • State formation: revenues and institutions
  • State-building in distributive states
  • Politics and development in distributive states
  • Distributive states: oil and history
  • State strength, autonomy, and social setting
  • - Part 2. Libya since independence. Chapter 3. Shadow of the past: the Sanusi Kingdom
  • The Sanusi Kingdom and the colonial legacy
  • Libya's first oil boom: state-building and institutions
  • Conclusion. Chapter 4. From kingdom to republic: the Qadhafi coup. Political consolidation and mobilization
  • The popular revolution and the pursuit of legitimacy
  • From concession to participation
  • oil and development
  • Conclusion;
  • Chapter 5. Thawra and Tharwa: Libya's boom-and-bust decade. Technocrats versus revolutionaries: transition toward a Jamahiriyya
  • The Green Book: popular rule
  • Postponing reform: the last great spender of petrodollars
  • Postponing reform: confrontation abroad, mobilization at home
  • The politics of evocation: myths, symbols, and charisma, emerging problems of control
  • Oil and state-building during Libya's Revolutionary Decade
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Shadow of the future: Libya's failed Infitah "revolution within the revolution"
  • Libya's Infitah
  • Markets, institutions, and economic reform
  • Growth and development
  • Conclusion
  • - Part 3. Conclusion. Chapter 7. Oil and state-building in distributive states: the Libyan contribution
  • State-building, institutions, and rent-seeking in distributive states
  • The power of the distributive state
  • Power or wealth: politics in distributive states
  • State-building in the Jamahiriyya: observation on the future
  • Oil, state-building, and politics.