Vandewalle

Of all the unrest roiling the region's regimes recently, Libya's situation is the thorniest to deal with politically because of the lack of close ties between the United States and Libya, said Dirk Vandewalle, a Libyan scholar and associate professor of government at Dartmouth College.

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Dirk Vandewalle, an expert on Libya's politics and history at Dartmouth College, added that the government's security forces "are known to be very vicious."

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The climate in general is so uncertain now that no one will want to do business anyway except for some of the companies that have managed to stay in there and seem to be able to pump oil, said Vandewalle, a government professor who last visited Libya in May.

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Laurence Vandewalle, tel: 0032 2 2841695, laurence. vandewalle@europarl.europa.eu

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Vandewalle says, Well, to just give you one example, usually, when television came on in the afternoon in Libya, it would open up with a citation from "The Green Book."

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Once the outcome of the uprising becomes clear, Vandewalle predicts, Libya will need to rebuild its economy "from the bottom up" by establishing and attracting new businesses to supplement the oil industry.

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The administration "is not going to pull the plug on this engagement," says Dirk Vandewalle, a Libya expert and professor of government at Dartmouth.

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"We don't really know, even at the big refineries, what is happening and how they're managing to keep pumping," said Dartmouth College professor Dirk Vandewalle, author of A History of Modern Libya, speaking about the information gap facing all the U.S. oil firms.

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"The region has always been distrusted by Gadhafi," said Dartmouth College Professor Dirk Vandewalle, an expert on Libyan history and politics.

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