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Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa

By North Atlantic Treaty Organization;Forte , Maximilian C

Book information

Publisher
Baraka Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9781926824529, 9781926824741, 9781926824758, 192682475X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3637923 bytes)
Pages
345 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
2011- -- Causes;North Atlantic Treaty Organization2011-;Libya -- History -- Civil WarImperialism;War--Causes;History;North Atlantic Tre

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A comprehensive analysis, this book examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. It delineates the documentary history of events, processes, and decisions that led up to the war while underscoring its resulting consequences. Arguing that NATO's war is part of a larger process of militarizing U.S. relations with Africa-which sees the development of the Pentagon's AFRICOM as being in competition with Pan-African initiative-this account shows that Western relations with a "rehabilitated" Libya were shaky at best, mired in distrust, and exhibit.;Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abberviations; Introduction -- Liberal Imperialism and the New Scramble for Africa; Chapter One -- Sirte: Keystone of Independence; Welcome to Sirte Today; From a Tent outside Sirte: Defining a New Libya; Sirte: An African Dream Turned into a Nightmare; Sirte, the New Pan-Africanism, and U.S. Scrutiny; Sirte's Place in the Development of Libya; Sirte: Reforms, Divisions, and Raised Expectations; Chapter Two -- Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism; Sirte: Reagan, Regime Change, Rapprochement.

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