@article{694493,
      recid = {694493},
      author = {Pargeter, Alison.},
      title = {Libya the rise and fall of Qaddafi / [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven [Conn.] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (289 p., [8] p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"The story of Libya over the last half-century is about as  extraordinary as it gets. Following a coup by the  27-year-old Muammar Qaddafi and his fellow junior officers  in 1969, what had been a failing monarchical state was  transformed into the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab  Jamahiriyah. For many years Qaddafi pursued an independent  and capricious political course, alienating fellow Arab  regimes and Western governments alike by ill-judged  interventions and sponsoring terrorist acts, while Libyans  suffered from his bizarre political and economic policies,  as well as high levels of corruption and repression. After  Libya's rehabilitation into the international community in  2003, when the increasingly eccentric Qaddafi announced  that he was abandoning the country's weapons of mass  destruction programmes, the quixotic Colonel focused his  attentions on cultivating friendly relations with Europe  and the US, while oil companies rushed back into the  country. It seemed as though Qaddafi had bought himself a  new lease of life. But everything changed in spring 2011,  when the Arab revolts swept across the region. A series of  peaceful protests in Libya were put down with brutal force;  before long rebellion had swept across eastern Libya, and  from the moment NATO forces entered the fray on the side of  the rebels Qaddafi's days were numbered. In this riveting  and deeply researched account, Alison Pargeter asks how  Qaddafi managed to remain in power so long, and why his  luck finally ran out. Just as importantly, she analyses the  legacy he has left for his successors: what are their  chances of turning a country riven with misgovernment and  division into a functioning state?"--Book jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694493},
}