From a ‘rogue’ to a parolee: Analyzing Libya’s ‘de-roguing’

While studies on how countries come to be seen as ‘rogue’ abound,1 the international community’s reintegration of ‘rogue’ states remains an overlooked aspect. This absence is surprising for a number of reasons. First, given that the literature on the strategies of coping with ‘rogues’ is so copious (for example Brookes 2005, Dueck 2006, Henriksen 2001, Lake 1994, Litwak 2000, Schwartz 2007, Smith 2006), it is unexpected that the literature on the actual demise of ‘rogue’ state status is as scarce. Second while numerous authors have studied how frames emerge and change within international politics (Krebs and Jackson 2007, Mintz and Redd 2003, Payne 2001, Risse 2000), studies of the reintegration of ‘rogues’ are by and large missing (Patrick T. Jackson’s 2006 study of how Germany was reintegrated to Europe after the Second World War being a rare exception).