Date: 2020
Type: Article
The war and the economy : the gradual destruction of Libya
Review of African political economy, 2020, Vol. 47, No. 166, pp. 545-567
CAPASSO, Matteo, The war and the economy : the gradual destruction of Libya, Review of African political economy, 2020, Vol. 47, No. 166, pp. 545-567
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This article questions dominant analyses about Libya’s present ‘war economy’ and ‘statelessness’, which are often deployed to explain the country’s ongoing destruction. By reinterpreting the history of the past as the failure of Libya to implement neoliberal reforms, these accounts trivialise its anti-imperialist history. The article reflects on the role that war and militarism play in the US-led imperialist structure, tracing the gradual unmaking of Libya from the progressive revolutionary era, towards its transformation into a comprador state and an outpost for global class war. In doing so, it moves the focus away from Libya’s ‘war economy’ to examine the war and the economy, linking Libya’s fate to the geo-economic and geopolitical forces at the core of US-led imperialism.
Additional information:
Published online 10 August 2020
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/68963
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2020.1801405
ISSN: 0305-6244; 1740-1720
Publisher: Routledge
Published version: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/68964
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