This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e.g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e.g. Beni Walid) or political (e.g. the Muslim Brotherhood) took its own path into the uprisings and subsequent conflict of 2011, according to their own histories and relationship to Muammar Qadhafi's regime.The story of each group is told by the authors, based on reportage and expert analysis, from the outbreak of protests in Benghazi in February 2011 through to the transitional period following the end of fighting in October 2011. They describe the emergence of Libya's new politics through the unique stories of those who made it happen, or those who fought against it.The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath brings together leading journalists, academics, and specialists, each with extensive field experience amidst the constituencies they depict, drawing on interviews with fighters, politicians and civil society leaders who have contributed their own account of events to this volume.

IntroductionNote on TransliterationFrequently Used AcronymsPart 1: The Revolution and its GovernanceChapter 1: Libya's Uncertain RevolutionDirk VandewalleChapter 2: The Corridor of Uncertainty: the National Transitional Council and legitimacy in a time of warDr Peter BartuChapter 3: NATO 's InterventionFrederic WehreyChapter 4: The Fall of Tripoli: Part 1Peter Cole with Umar KhanChapter 5: The Fall of Tripoli: Part 2Peter Cole with Umar KhanChapter 6: The United Nations Role in the TransitionIan MartinChapter 7: Confronting Qadhafi's Legacy: transitional justice in LibyaMarieke WierdaPart 2: Sub-National Identities and NarrativesChapter 8: History 's Warriors: the Emergence of Revolutionary Battalions in MisrataBrian McQuinnChapter 9: The war in the Jabal NafusaWolfram Lacher and Ahmed LabnoujChapter 10: Bani Walid: Loyalism in a Time of RevolutionPeter ColeChapter 11: Libya 's Tebu: Living in the MarginsRebecca MurrayChapter 12: Finding Their Place, Libya 's Islamists during and after the 2011 uprisingMary FitzgeraldChapter 13: Barqa Reborn? Eastern Regionalism and Libya 's Political TransitionSean KaneChapter 14: Tuareg militancy and the Sahelian shock waves of the civil war in LibyaYvan Guichaoua