Libya since independence
Subtitle: oil and state-building
By: Dirk Vandewalle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Libya.; Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy -- Libya.; Libya -- Politics and government -- 1951-1969.; Libya -- Politics and government -- 1969-
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-218) and index.