The Geopolitics of Libya
The Geopolitics of Libya
by
Michael A G Bunter
Pages: 182
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Published: March 2011
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Michael Bunter, the author of this 180 page monograph, is an English petroleum geologist who lived and worked in Libya (1968-1970) in the oilfields during the critical last years of the Idrisite monarchy. He was there during the Ghaddaffi coup and also through the first year and a half of the new Ghadaffi government. This was a time when radicalism was to change the world of Libyan and north African oil and gas fundamentally.
In this completely new work the author recounts the complex politics of Libya and also its history and attempts to relate current events to the evolution of Libyan geopolitics.
This monograph is aimed at the new ventures groups of the international oil and gas industry, at other current and future investors in Libya and north Africa, to consumer-country opinion-formers as well as to public and private oil and gas consumers, and to others who may need to take long-term views on developments in Libya. It is a companion to the 350 page book "The Libyan Petroleum Industry in the Twenty First century: the Upstream, Midstream and Downstream Handbook"
Amongst little-known incidents dealt with in this monograph are:
- The complexities of the tribal and ethnic groups in Libya: the Arabs, the Berbers, the Tibbu and others. These may be expected to take roles after the expiry of Ghadaffi-politics and his centralising efforts.
- The evolution of Saharan politics, the Libyan Senusi Islamists and other politico-religious movements. In addition the recent military support for Ghadaffi expressed by some young north African Tuareg fighters ... their possible connection to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM
- The remaining terrorist links forged by Ghadaffi, including his involvement in the so far unrevealed kidnappings of foreigners in 1979-80. These links may not have been completely broken
- The Italian link and the suspected connection of the Ghadaffi coup to pre-Second World War Italian politics
Mr Bunter provides a political history of Libya from Ottoman times to the present and shows how Mediterranean geopolitics have informed this obscure, fascinating and potentially important country.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR ... 2
- SUMMARY ... 3
- The geography of Libya ... 9
- Libyan weather ... 17
- The Libyan economy ... 19
- The peoples of Libya ... 24
- Historical background: the coming of the Arabs and the time of the Ottoman empire ... 35
- The Sanusiyah and the end of Ottoman rule ... 41
- The Libyan nation and tribes-folk ... 54
- The Italian occupation of Libya ... 60
- Liberation and the post-Second World War period ... 68
- Arab nationalism and the end of the Libyan monarchy ... 68
- The coming of oil and the changing face of the Libyan economy ... 80
- The Libyan revolution of 1969 ... 89
- The Constitution and laws of 1969 and after ... 97
- The Libyan and Arab petroleum sector following the revolution of 1969 ... 102
- Libya's new political institutions after 1969 ... 107
- Libyan petroleum and business legislation: an overview ... 114
- The Great Man-Made River Scheme, GMR ... 116
- Libya and the Arab world ... 116
- Libya within the African Union ... 120
- Libya and the European Union ... 127
- Libya and the United States during and after sanctions ... 134
- The Libyan economic sector outside the petroleum upstream ... 143
- Libya and petroleum developments in the 21st century ... 146
- Libyan geopolitics in the twenty first century ... 149
- Ghadaffi and his personality ... 160
- Ghadaffi's family ... 162
- The erstwhile Libyan government and possible future developments ... 164
- References ... 168
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