POLI 340 Chapter 17: Ellen Lust - The Middle East: Libya
5 Oct 2017
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In 2015 nowadays libya is on the edge of collapse because of two governments that claim their legitimacy: Also, some terrorist groups are still attached with people who are still loyal to the old regime of colonel muammar al-qadhafi. There has been a global downturn in oil prices. In the south of the country, rival groups began fighting over the lucrative trans-sahara trade routes (illicit goods, human trafficking) which increase the difficulty of creating a post- revolutionary state in libya. To conclude, refugees from africa and asia who wants to reach european shores by sea take the advantage of the statelessness in libya to make the dangerous mediterranean crossing. To have a complete analysis of a very broken polity, we are going to make a deeper examination of: Before the world war ii, libya was under the italian rule. It got its independence in 1951 and created a constitutional monarchy led by the king idriss.
