Indeed, Gaddafi’s emphatic call for Libya to embrace the market economy could have a sort of revolutionary domino effect among North Africa’s “dirigiste” economies, improving the chances for a revitalization of plans to open and integrate the Maghreb Union economies. Libya’s newfound engagement with the US and the EU represents not only a major shift in its international policies and diplomatic posture, but also a major internal reorientation, because the country now wants to develop an economy that is not exclusively based on oil.