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Libya After Qaddafi

Posted by: Ion | March 3rd, 2007 · 10:25 PM

Libyan autocrat Muammar al-Qaddafi, has suggested of late that he may be redundant to Libya’s future. While this isn’t quite as groundbreaking as has been portrayed -Qaddaffi’s Jumahiriya ideology theoretically requires no head of state- it does put into a new context the recent changes that have been taking place relative to Libya and the rest of the world and the ambitions of both the West and the Islamists (particularly Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) for control of the Maghreb.

Presently, the full title of Qaddafi’s Libya is: “Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.” The “Jamahiriya” is a term invented by Qaddafi to describe his concept for a new Islamic “democracy,” one without elections. In practice, this has meant a closed society under military dictatorship. However, while political control remains firmly in the grip of the dictator, Libya has begun to open up on broader fronts.

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