Current problems of Europe

Europe and civil war in Libya: Where the country of 140 tribes and 120 belligerents is going?

Видясова М.Ф.

Vidiassova M.F. – Sc.D. in history, professor, leading researcher, Chair of Oriental politics, Institute of Asian and African studies, Lomonosov Moscow state university.

Abstract

The article deals with the civil war in Libya and the influence on it of France, Italy, Great Britain and the USA. The author emphasizes the equal balance of external and internal factors in the emergence of this war and also the drawing in its development of Qatar and some other Arab states.

Keywords

the Jamahiriya, tribes, Islamism, intervention, France, Italy, Great Britain, the USA, NATO, CIA, migrations, slaves-trade.

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