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“As multiple forces assert power in different parts of the country, however, the old regional divisions have reemerged,” Pelham notes. “Only a strongman, many feel, can hold Libya together. But who could it be?” Libya is a prime example of how the political turmoil in the Arab world is likely to produce a new political geography, says a leading analyst. “New borders may be drawn in disparate, and potentially chaotic, ways. Countries could unravel through phases of federation, soft partition or autonomy, ending in geographic divorce,” says Robin Wright, a distinguished scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and the Wilson Center. - See more at: demdigest.net/blog/2013/09/libya-in-search-of-a-strongman-in-a-remapped-middle-east/#sthash.Wtr4zd4M.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:22:32 +0000

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