Nicholas Pelham's latest contribution to the New York Review of Books on Libya, "Losing Libya's Revolution", gives a sobering look at the increasing difficulty of achieving a functioning state in the midst of Libya's many militias. Writing about those who seek greater local autonomy to make up for the shortcomings of the central government, Pelham says "Libya could yet end up looking much like the Persian Gulf: a dot-to-dot of city-states along the coast, much as it was before the Great Powers in Versailles almost a century ago began assembling the region into protectorates and nation-states." You can read the full article here.The article also has positive press for my edited volume The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Search for the Post-Qadhafi Future. As Pelham mentions:
Also worth mentioning is The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and the Struggle for the Post-Qadhafi Future, edited by Jason Pack (Palgrave, 2013). Unlike the others, which all put Qaddafi on their front cover and reduce coverage of the revolution against him to their last pages, this compendium alone focuses on the forces determining Libya’s future.