Ahmed-Tarek Megerisi(Consultant of Arab Politics, Governance and Democratisaton)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication Date: 27 August 2014
Many eulogies have been written for the post-Qaddaffi Libyan state since the heavy fighting - which has been sporadically subsuming different parts of the country since independence - engulfed the capital Tripoli in July.
Libya's popular characterisation as a 'failed state' is not baseless. Having failed to re-vamp Qaddafi's political structure of destructive competition and power through patronage; Libya's transitional political bodies have gradually ceased to play any constructive role in the lives of the populace. Transitional legislatures have repeatedly failed to pass laws to arrest the slide into instability and the lack of services; and the executive has proven itself unable to enforce the few which are passed....... Read more