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Jason Pack: Libya's post-Qadhafi Fissures: Federalists, Islamists, Berbers and the Militias
Jason Pack is a PhD Candidate in History at St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and president of Libya-Analysis.com. He is the editor of The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and The Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Spectator, and Foreign Policy.In the process of defeating Qadhafi, Libyan society was mobilized along local/regional/tribal/and religious cleavages. The post-revolutionary struggle has re-created power relationships that are analogous to those that existed in the Ottoman, Italian, British, and Sanussi Monarchy periods. Study of the Berber community, federalists, and extreme Islamists reveals that paranoid and jingoistic revolutionary militiamen have set each of their community’s policies rather than more compromising and talent members of civil society.The central government’s inability to create an inclusive rhetoric to compete wit
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Jason Pack is a PhD Candidate in History at St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and president of Libya-Analysis.com. He is the editor of The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and The Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Spectator, and Foreign Policy.In the process of defeating Qadhafi, Libyan society was mobilized along local/regional/tribal/and religious cleavages. The post-revolutionary struggle has re-created power relationships that are analogous to those that existed in the Ottoman, Italian, British, and Sanussi Monarchy periods. Study of the Berber community, federalists, and extreme Islamists reveals that paranoid and jingoistic revolutionary militiamen have set each of their community’s policies rather than more compromising and talent members of civil society.The central government’s inability to create an inclusive rhetoric to compete wit
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