Abstract
While studying the situation in Libya, we are facing a case that is really different from the other failed states. Contrary to Irak or Syria, there is no ethnic differences. Libyans are, like most people from North Africa, a mixed people made of Amazigh and Arabs. Contrary to Irak, Syria or Yemen, Libya is a religiously homogeneous country, with Sunni Islam as the dominant religion. Actually, the failure of the Libyan nation-state is due to historical and cultural differences between the West and the East of the country.
