Qaddafi's Libya in world politics Yehudit Ronen Libya's enigmatic Muammar Qaddafi has demonstrated a perhaps unprecedented capacity for reinvention and survival, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. Yehudit Ronen traces Libya's sometimes tortuous trajectory in international affairs across the four decades of Qaddafi's leadership. Ronen addresses a range of critical issues: oil politics, foreign military adventurism, WMDs, international terrorism, the confrontation between Islam and the West, and the constraints of US policy in the Middle East. She also sheds abundant light on the many ways that domestic politics have affected Libya's international role. From internal leadership rivalries to international strategic quandaries, she navigates the major course corrections that have reoriented the country's focus from the Arab Middle East and the Soviet Union to the African continent and the West. Yehudit Ronen is a senior research scholar at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and lecturer in Political Science at Bar Ilan University. Her numerous publications include Sudan in a Civil War: Between Africanism, Arabism and Islam and The Maghrib: Politics, Society, and Economy. she is also author of a novel, Carob Whiskey