Regular Army as an institution in the national state system in Libya
The article is devoted to the investigation of genesis of regular army as a political institution in conditions of political transit and transformations in Libya. The chronological scope of the study covers the historical period from 1951, when a sovereign Libyan state with monarchical form of government appeared, until 2011, when Libyan Jamahiriya ceased to exist. The author scrutinizes the problems of collaboration of army with traditional and modern institutions of Libyan society and state; participation of army in development and implementation of domestic and foreign policy. He also examines how system of checks and balances of participation of army in the political process was established and how it was functioning during in the Monarchy (1951-1969), Republic (1969-1976) and Jamahiriya (1976-2011). Further events (2011-2014) demonstrate the continuation of discovered trends and patterns of socio-political development of the regular army institution in the new Libyan state.