Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Revolution and Qaddafi's expanding horizons
  • Libya and the United States : conflict in the Cold War era
  • Libya-US relations in the new world order
  • Strategic alignment with the USSR : balancing against the West
  • The dynamics of inter-Arab relations : courtship and rejection
  • Abandoning pan-Arabism : a Libyan heartbreak
  • Charting a new course in Africa : military involvement in Uganda
  • Intervention in Chad : warfare and collapsed aspirations
  • A new quest for unity and leadership in Africa
  • Conclusion : Qaddafi's changing strategies for survival.