"I think that itâ€™s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, thereâ€™s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya."

-- Larry Diamond

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