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After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?: Libya: defining its future

Alaaldin, Ranj (2012) After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?: Libya: defining its future. IDEAS reports - special reports, Kitchen, Nicholas ORCID: 0000-0001-8784-9012 (ed.) (SR011). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

The international community is approaching the anniversary of its intervention in Libya last year. What started as a protest for greater rights and democracy quickly transformed into a military uprising against a vicious dictator intent on suppressing a revolution with every brutal means at his disposal. The conflict was distinct from other uprisings elsewhere in the region for three principal reasons: first, the brutality with which Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime responded; second, the audacity, tenacity and speed with which the Libyan people became militarily organised and capable of exploiting Gaddafi’s disintegrating military; and third, the involvement of the international community, in the form of the NATO alliance that was backed up by Arab support, particularly from the Gulf state of Qatar.

Item Type: Monograph (Report)
Official URL: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/Home.aspx
Additional Information: © 2012 The Author
Divisions: IGA: LSE IDEAS
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DS Asia
J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited: 04 May 2012 10:28
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 22:19
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/43463

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