Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya /

In this incisive account, scholar Horace Campbell investigates the political and economic crises of the early twenty-first century through the prism of NATO's intervention in Libya. He traces the origins of the conflict, situates it in the broader context of the Arab Spring uprisings, and expla...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Campbell, Horace (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization > Armed Forces > Libya.
Revolutions.
Regime change.
Politics and government.
Neoliberalism.
Intervention (International law)
Armed Forces.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
Neoliberalism > Libya.
Revolutions > Libya.
Regime change > Libya.
Libya.
Libya > Politics and government > 21st century.
Libya > History > Civil War, 2011-
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. The NATO intervention in Libya: a lesson of colossal failure
  • The independence of Libya and the birth of NATO
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of global NATO
  • Muammar Gaddafi and the elusive revolution
  • The neoliberal assault on Libya: London School of Economics and Harvard professors
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and the responsibility to protect
  • Libya and Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Libyan resources
  • France and Libya
  • Libya and the financialization of energy markets
  • The NATO campaign
  • The African Union and Libya
  • NATO in Libya as a military information operation
  • Who took Tripoli?
  • Tawerga and the myth of "African mercenaries"
  • The execution of Gaddafi
  • NATO's Libyan mission: a catastrophic failure
  • European isolation in Africa
  • Failure begets failure: the NATO quagmire in Libya consumes the U.S. ambassador to Libya
  • "Libya all in": a culture of dysfunctionality in the U.S. military and its explosion in the U.S. political system
  • Conclusion: NATO and the processes of failure and destruction in Libya
  • Afterword by Ali A. Mazrui: from the Lockerbie air crash to the Libyan revolution.

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