NATO's Failure in Libya: Lessons for Africa /

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When the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings erupted in Africa, in the first two months of the year 2011, with the chant, 'the people want to bring down the regime', there was hope all over the continent that these rebellions were part of a wider African Awakening. President Ben Ali of Tunisia...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campbell, Horace (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization > Armed Forces > Libya.
Intervention (International law)
Regime change > Libya.
Libya > Politics and government > 1969-
Libya > History > Civil War, 2011-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The independence of Libya and the birth of NATO
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union and emergence of NATO
  • Muammar Gaddafi and the Elusive Revolution
  • The Neo-liberal assault on Libya : London School of Economics and Harvard professors
  • UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and the responsibility to protect
  • Libya and the Gulf Cooperation Council
  • Libyan resources
  • France and Libya and the financialisation of energy markets
  • The NATO Campaign
  • The African Union and Libya
  • NATO in Libya as a Military Information Operation
  • Who took Tripoli?
  • Tawergha and the myth of African mercenaries
  • The execution of Gaddafi
  • NATO's Libyan mission: a catastrophic failure
  • European isolation in Africa
  • Conclusion: NATO and the recursive processes of failure and destruction in Libya
  • Appendix 1. Libya, Africa and the new world order: An open letter to the Peoples of Africa and the World from Concerned Africans
  • Appendix 2. African Union Peace and Security Council Road Map on Libya, March 10, 2011
  • Appendix 3. UN Security Council Resolution 1973, March 17, 2011
  • Appendix 4. Chinese business in Libya
  • Appendix 5. ''This is my will''
  • Muammar Gaddafi.

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