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SUMMARY:Libya's post-Qadhafi Fissures:  Federalists\, Islamists\, Berbers 
 and the Militias  - Jason Pack Ph.D. Student\; Faculty of History
DTSTART:20131127T130000Z
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CONTACT:DJ Goode
DESCRIPTION:Bio: Jason Pack is a PhD Candidate in History at St. Catharine
 's College\, University of Cambridge\, and president of Libya-Analysis.com
 . He is the editor of The 2011 Libyan Uprisings and The Struggle for the P
 ost-Qadhafi Future (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).  His articles have appeared 
 in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, The Guard
 ian\, The Spectator\, and Foreign Policy.\n \nAbstract: In the process of 
 defeating Qadhafi\, Libyan society was mobilized along local/regional/trib
 al/and religious cleavages.  The post-revolutionary struggle has re-create
 d  power relationships that are analogous to those that existed in the Ott
 oman\, Italian\, British\, and Sanussi Monarchy periods. Study of the  Ber
 ber community\, federalists\, and extreme Islamists reveals that paranoid 
 and jingoistic revolutionary militiamen have set each of their community's
  policies rather than more compromising and talent members of civil societ
 y.\n\nThe central government's inability to create an inclusive rhetoric t
 o compete with the discourse of the periphery or build functioning institu
 tions and a national army which can constrain the militias  has ceded init
 iative and power to the periphery. This talk will examine the periphery's 
 successful attempts at blackmail and the centre's inability to consolidate
  power and penchant for appeasement.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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