NATO’s Failure in Libya: Lessons for Afr
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NATO’s Failure in Libya: Lessons for Afr

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
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NATO’s Failure in Libya: Lessons for Afr

About this book

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 was forced to step down and fled to Saudi Arabia. Within a month of Ben Ali's departure, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt was removed from power by the people, who mobilised a massive revolutionary movement in the country. Four days after the ousting of Mubarak, sections of the Libyan people rebelled in Benghazi. Within days, this uprising was militarised, with armed resistance countered by declarations from the Libyan leadership vowing to use raw state power to root out the rebellion. The first Libyan demonstrations occurred on February 15, 2011, but by February 21 there were reports that innocent civilians were in imminent danger of being massacred by the army. This information was embellished by reports of the political leadership branding the rebellious forces as 'rats'.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. The Independence of Libya and the Birth of NATO
  9. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Emergence of a Global NATO
  10. Muammar Gaddafi and the Elusive Revolution
  11. The neo-liberal assault on Libya– London School of Economics and Harvard Professors
  12. UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and the Responsibility to Protect
  13. Libya and the Gulf Cooperation Council
  14. Libyan Resources
  15. France and Libya
  16. Libya and the Financialisation of Energy Markets
  17. The NATO Campaign
  18. The African Union and Libya
  19. NATO in Libya as a Military Information Operation
  20. Who Took Tripoli?
  21. Tawergha and the Myth of ‘African Mercenaries’
  22. The Execution of Gaddafi
  23. NATO’s Libyan Mission: A Catastrophic Failure
  24. European Isolation in Africa
  25. Conclusion: NATO and the Recursive Processes of Failure and Destruction in Libya
  26. Notes and References
  27. Appendix 1 - LIBYA, AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER: An Open Letter t the Peoples of Africa and the World from Concerned Africans
  28. Appendix 2 - African Union Peace and Security Council
  29. Appendix 3 - UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
  30. Appendix 4 - CHINESE BUSINESSES IN LIBYA
  31. Appendix 5 - THIS IS MY WILL
  32. Back cover