© Columbia University Press
The Libyan Paradox
September, 2007
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70021-4
$60.00
Luis Martinez is one of the very few international scholars who can venture informed answers to questions about Libya. He has followed domestic Libyan politics closely for more than two decades, throughout the American embargo and during the United Nations sanctions, and he brings an intimate familiarity with the country to his analysis. He has seen firsthand the domestic impact of half a century of oil revenues, nearly four decades of permanent revolution, twenty-five years of American hostility, and more than a decade of international isolation, and he is eloquent in describing what this poisonous combination has created.