Changes and Continuities in Chinese Communismby Yuming Shaw

✍ Scribed by Review by: Donald S. Zagoria

• Book ID: 125209603
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Volume: 67
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20043865

✦ Synopsis

RECENT BOOKS 197 1975 through 1979. His vantage point was a region inhabited by the Zuwaya tribe in Cyrenaica, his material the results of careful observation at the level of family, kinship group and tribe. Incidentally, Qaddafi's "Green Book" and his system of direct democracy were not as crazy as they seemed to most Westerners, for the Libyans were not a nation, had no affinity for Western-type political institutions, and had strong "stateless" traditions. Davis has no illusions about Qaddafi or his politics, but he explains a great deal about Libya.