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Intro -- LIBYA: TRANSITION AND STATE BUILDING -- LIBYA: TRANSITION AND STATE BUILDING -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: LIBYA: TRANSITION AND U.S. POLICY -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS -- Assessment -- Attacks on U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi -- Political Developments and Challenges -- Domestic and Regional Security Issues -- U.S. Security Policy Considerations -- U.S. Assistance Programs and Related Legislation -- FY2013 Appropriations and Pending Funding Issues -- BACKGROUND -- Libyan History, Civil War, and Political Change -- July 2012 General National Congress Election and Results -- Constitutional Assembly and Federalism Debate -- Security and Human Rights Challenges -- Weapons Proliferation and Related Concerns -- Chemical Weapons Destruction and Nuclear Material -- United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) -- Economic Issues -- Libyan Assets -- Trade, Investment, and Energy -- International Criminal Court (ICC) and United Nations Human Rights Council Investigations -- Legislation in the 112th Congress -- End Notes -- Chapter 2: STATE-BUILDING CHALLENGES IN A POST-REVOLUTION LIBYA -- FOREWORD -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- SUMMARY -- Recommendations -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SEEDS OF LIBYA'S FEBRUARY 17, 2011, REVOLUTION -- Limited Political Openings -- Economic Factors -- TRIBES AND POLITICS DURING AND AFTER QADHAFI'S RULE -- CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW LIBYA -- Security Challenges -- The Challenge of Armed Militias -- Political Transition: Avoiding the "Rotten Door" Democracy Fate -- Building Legitimate Institutions -- The Democratic Culture Deficit -- The Tribal Dilemma: Inclusion or Exclusion? -- Handling Ideological and Political Differences -- Truth Recovery and Reconciliation -- Economic Reconstruction Imperatives -- LOOKING AHEAD: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND LIBYA

« Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new safe haven for transnational terrorist organizations and the epicenter of the Mediterranean refugee crisis. This is the first book to document and explain the political, security, and humanitarian crises that have engulfed Libya -- Africa's largest oil exporting country -- since 2011. « (Verlagsbeschreibung)

Oil revenues have made Libya rich since 1961, when oil exports began. This new wealth has affected all sectors of the economy and especially the agricultural sector; there have been considerable movements of population, changes in the use of land, and, possibly most important, there has been a profound change in the expectations of the Libyan people. Agriculture was the major contributor to GDP before oil and even in 1968 it was still the major sector in terms of employment, occupying 32 per cent of the employed population; as such it has always been given prominence in government planning. Th