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Memoirs of the grand old lady of white liberalism in South Africa. Helen Suzman was a member of parliament from 1953 to 1989, where she represented the United Party, the Progressive Party and the Democratic Party respectively. She was a member of the Electoral Commission. (DÜI-Eng)

The formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) under Abdelhamid Dabeiba in March 2021 was a breakthrough in efforts to overcome Libya's political division. But the settlement's flaws are already starting to show. So far, political actors have merely agreed to compete for access to state funds within a unified government. Dis­tributive struggles could soon test the government's cohesion. Meanwhile, substan­tive disagreements are being shoved aside; in particular, the government is trying to ignore the challenges in the security sector. Unless progress is made towards elections that are planned for December 2021, tensions between profiteers and opponents of the government risk provoking a new political crisis. But even the elections them­selves harbour potential for renewed conflict. (author's abstract)

Paper presented at the conference on "Future of Change in the Arab World", organized by the Center for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS) in collaboration with the Swedish Institute at Alexandria,held between 9 and 12 November 2015 in Beirut, Lebanon