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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Chronology, ipoo-2011 | |
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| List of Acronyms | |
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| Introduction: Libya, the enigmatic oil state | |
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| "A tract which is wholly sand …"Herodotus | |
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| Libya's geography | |
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| The Ottoman period and the Sanusiyya | |
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| European intrusions and the Young Turk revolt | |
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| The Ottoman legacy | |
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| Italy's Fourth Shore and decolonization, 1911-1950 | |
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| The Italian occupation, 1911-192.3 | |
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| Fascism and the Italian settler colony | |
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| World War II, Italy's defeat, and the Great Power deliberations | |
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| Legacies at the eve of independence | |
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| The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state, 1951-1969 | |
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| Politics of avoidance: the reluctant monarchy | |
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| The development challenges of the first decade | |
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| The Libyan oil industry | |
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| The unification of the kingdom | |
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| The social impact of oil and the early seeds of revolution | |
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| The monarchy in perspective | |
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| A Libyan sandstorm: from monarchy to republic, 19 69-1973 | |
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| Libya's young revolutionaries | |
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| Popular revolution, participation, and legitimacy | |
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| Charisma and rhetoric as mobilizational tools | |
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| Oil and economic management | |
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| The revolution on the eve of the 1973 oil crisis | |
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| The Green Book's stateless society, 1973-1986 | |
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| Revolutionaries, technocrats, and "The Green Book" as political primer | |
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| "The Green Book's" economic and social directives | |
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| Oil and development | |
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| The revolutionary society | |
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| Symbols, myths, Islam, and opposition | |
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| Terrorism, adventurism, and confrontation with the West | |
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| The revolutionary decade revisited | |
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| The limits of the revolution, 1986-2000 | |
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| Curtailing revolutionary energy | |
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| "The Great Green Charter of Human Rights" | |
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| Protecting the regime: formal and informal means of power and control | |
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| The economic sanctions and their impact | |
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| Economic sanctions and oil policies | |
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| Attempts at economic reform | |
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| The lessons of failed reforms | |
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| Confrontation, terrorism, and sanctions | |
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| The revolution curtailed | |
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| Reconciliation, civil war, and fin de r�gime, 2003-2011 | |
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| The road to disarmament | |
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| Pragmatism, economic reform, and political reality | |
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| From Arab socialism to pan-African unity | |
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| The delusions of Qadhafi and of the West | |
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| The uprising in Cyrenaica and the civil war | |
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| Epilogue: Whither Libya? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |