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Slouching towards Sirte : NATO's war on Libya and Africa / Maximilian C. Forte.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal, Canada : Baraka Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 341 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781926824529 (paperback)
  • 1926824520 (paperback)
Subject(s): Summary: 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 exhibiting a preference for regime change.
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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 militarising 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 exhibiting a preference for regime change.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 exhibiting a preference for regime change.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. 9)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 14)
  • Abbreviations (p. 15)
  • Introduction: Liberal Imperialism and the New Scramble for Africa (p. 17)
  • Chapter 1 Sirte: Keystone of Independence (p. 31)
  • Chapter 2 Sirte: Touchstone of Imperialism (p. 69)
  • Chapter 3 Libyan Pan-Africanism and Its Discontents (p. 137)
  • Chapter 4 A War against Africa: AFRICOM, NATO, and Racism (p. 187)
  • Chapter 5 Humanitarianism and the Invention of Emergency (p. 237)
  • Conclusion: The Aftermath: A New War on Africa (p. 267)
  • References (p. 309)
  • Index (p. 339)

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