Libya Political History

Libya Political History. The entire Libyan governance profile and Economy situation. A Book for Libya history. While it has been fairly easy to state that the political transitions emerging from the “Arab Spring” will substantially impact the political trajectory of the region, accurately assessing the extent and characteristics of this impact has proven a far more difficult task. No more is this the case than in Libya, where, in a relatively short period of time, unarmed protests gave way to armed resistance, international military intervention and the removal of the Qaddafi regime. Since taking power in 1969, the Qaddafi government had managed to co-opt or violently suppress opposition to the regime. In 2011, the Qaddafi government’s efforts to summarily quell large demonstrations throughout the country prompted the formation of armed opposition groups. The most prominent of these groups, the National Transitional Council [NTC], declared itself the “sole representative on March 5 2011 [NTC Libya