Building a Democratic Libya After Dictatorship

The Takeaway

The death of Moammar Gadhafi and the capture of Sirte brings to close a prolonged struggle between the Gadhafi regime and Libya’s pro-democracy rebels, ending an years of conflict and clearing the way for a new era of rebuilding, with challenges of its own.  With the fall of a ruler who has been in power for more than four decades, Libya in many ways will be starting from scratch.  Mike Newton, an international law professor at Vanderbilt University Law School,  has been acting as a legal adviser to the Libyan rebels. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense  Larry Korb  is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. They both weigh in on Libya’s future.

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