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DIRK VANDEWALLE, Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-Building (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998). Pp. 245. $45 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2001

Azzedine Layachi
Azzedine Layachi
Affiliation:
Department of Government and Politics, St. John's University, New York, N.Y.
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Abstract

Among Middle Eastern and North African states, Libya has been under-studied, especially in recent years, because of difficulties in doing fieldwork and because of Libya's isolation by the American-led international boycott in the wake of the Lockerbie incident. Vandewalle's book is not only a much needed and fresh look at the inner workings of Libya; it is also a very valuable contribution to an ongoing theoretical debate over rentier states, state-building, and étatism. It is the culmination of fourteen months of fieldwork that included interviews with many high officials and access to primary source material available only in Libya.

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BOOK REVIEW
Information
International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , May 2000 , pp. 317 - 319
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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