Libya's Qaddafi

The Politics of Contradiction

by Mansour O. El-Kikhia

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With a perspective rarely available to American readers, Mansour O. El-Kikhia presents a brief history of Libya through the periods of colonization, independence, Arab socialism, and economic growth and then explains the impact of Qaddafi’s personality and policies in this context.


Mansour O. El-Kikhia is associate professor of political science at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

1997. 280 pp. 6 X 9.

3 figures, 9 tables, notes, bibliography, index.

ISBN 0-8130-1585-5
 Paper, $24.95

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"A powerful study. . . . With devastating understatement, Kikhia shows how Qaddafi’s rule made everything far worse than it had been under the monarchy--from the availability of water to industrial output, from personal freedoms to foreign policy. . . . In brief, this is by far the best book ever written on the Qaddafi era."--Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly

"This authoritative, well-written, valuable scholarly account explains the relative regional political unimportance of Libya--unimportant in terms of power and influence. It is the Libyan people who must bear the burden of an extremely repressive and arbitrary regime."--Choice

"A first-rate objective analysis of the complexities of modern Libyan politics with a special focus on that country’s controversial leader. . . . Thoughtful and well-researched . . . evenhanded and immensely readable."--Library Journal

"Lucid and convincing . . . a welcome and insightful addition to an area of investigation which has all too frequently been the domain of the propagandist in the past." -- Journal of North African Studies