The Impact of Libya’s Crisis on the Political Process.
Book’s Abstract
This book aims to explore, describe, analyze and compare the impact of Libya's Crisis upon Libya’s political process. Three questions may ask, such as what is the Libyan Crisis? What is the Libyan political process? What is the relationship between the Libyan Crises on the one hand and the political process on the other? Preliminarily, we may assume that Libya’s Crisis affects the Libyan political process. It may argue in this regard that the core of Libya’s Crisis is a a conflict between democratization on the one side and dictatorship model on the other.
The significance of this book is different in terms of organizational style and substance. An abstract and keywords for each topic are given in each chapter. It also combines qualitative and quantitative techniques throughout the book. In addition, the book chapters follow the scientific progress in the social sciences; thus, SWOT analysis, content analysis, and statistical techniques are utilized whenever it is necessary. Readers may be interested in having a brief idea of each topic before reading the entire book. Thus, abstracts and keywords aim to help the readers to have a brief understanding of the topics in the book.
Libya’s Crisis may deals with as an independent variable and Libya's political process as a dependent variable. In addition, it may examine the political process on six levels of analysis, namely: individual, group, organizational, state, regional, and global levels. On the individual level, two topics may explore namely public opinion and voting behavior. In addition, on the regional level, different migration agreements have been concluded between Libya on the one side and Turkey, Italy, and Malta on the other side. At different levels of analysis, only one topic may examine, e.g., tribal politics is the focus of the group level.
This work is a short or medium-size book containing various chapters on Libyan politics. The first chapter simultaneously examines the core problem of Libyan politics, namely the Libyan Crisis, on the theoretical and practical levels. Adopting theoretical frameworks may help understand the different aspects of the Libyan Crisis. The second chapter deals with the topic of the Libyan legislative process. The decision-making process is mainly similar to other countries in terms of concept and complication. The third and fourth chapters focus on the non-governmental politics in Libya post-Kaddafi era. While the third chapter examines the attitudes of Libyans towards democratization, the other chapter deals with tribal politics. Libyan public opinion may describe as moderate in its orientation. According to delivered questionnaires in 2012 and 2015, respondents identify themselves as participants rather than parochial and subjective cultures.
The focus in chapter four is on tribes as a civil society organization. Here, it may say that tribes aim to fulfill the political interests of their members, e.g., tribes play roles in the national and local elections and appointees in the public sector. In chapter five, the focus will be on the democratization process since 2012. Here, the magnitude of external intervention is measured based on aggregated published data. Finally, the last chapter explores the role of international conferences in managing the Libyan Crisis. The focus is on the first international conference, the Berlin one, which was held in 2019. It resulted in the ceasefire and the activation of the Libyan-Libyan dialogue.
Keywords: Libya Crisis, Democratization, Legislative Process, tribalism, Public Opinion, External Intervention, International Conferences, and Berlin Conference.
Mustafa Abdalla Abulgasem Kashiem(9-2022)
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