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Global NATO and the catastrophic failure in Libya : lessons for Africa in the forging of African unity / by Horace Campbell.

Title
Global NATO and the catastrophic failure in Libya : lessons for Africa in the forging of African unity / by Horace Campbell.
Author
Campbell, Horace
Publication
New York : Monthly Review Press, 2013.

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Description
320 p.; 21 cm.
Subject
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization > Armed Forces > Libya
  • 2000-2099
  • Regime change > Libya
  • Revolutions > Libya
  • Intervention (International law)
  • Neoliberalism > Libya
  • Libya > History > Civil War, 2011-
  • Libya > Politics and government > 21st century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781583674130 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781583674123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013007503
OCLC
  • 828682660
  • SCSB-11222450
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library