Global NATO and the catastrophic failure in Libya lessons for Africa in the forging of African unity /

Campbell, Horace

Global NATO and the catastrophic failure in Libya lessons for Africa in the forging of African unity / [Texte imprimé] : by Horace Campbell ; afterword by Ali A. Mazrui - New York : Monthly Review Press, cop. 2013 - 1 vol. (320 p.) ; 21 cm

Notes bibliogr.

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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Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord


PRINTEMPS ARABE--(2010-....)
CHANGEMENT DE REGIME
REVOLUTION
GUERRE CIVILE
INTERVENTION MILITAIRE


LIBYE

Revolutions Intervention (International law) Neoliberalism

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