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Libya: Dream versus Reality
- Mediterranean Quarterly
- Duke University Press
- Volume 22, Number 3, Summer 2011
- pp. 42-52
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Libya emerged under United Nations auspices as a stillborn, failed state dependent on Western subventions. The civil war in which it is embroiled in 2011 confirms its manifold failures, now attributable to Colonel Muammar Qadaffi. The West is ill-positioned to reengage in nation-building, given its past failures.