NATO's Failure in Libya : Lessons for Africa.
Title:
NATO's Failure in Libya : Lessons for Africa.
Author:
Campbell, Horace.
ISBN:
9780798303705
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (186 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Independence of Libya and the Birth of NATO -- The liberation struggle -- NATO's origins -- The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Emergence of a Global NATO -- Protecting finance capital -- NATO spreads its reach -- Muammar Gaddafi and the Elusive Revolution -- UN sanctions and the 'conversion' of the regime -- The neo-liberal assault on Libya- London School of Economics and Harvard Professors -- Getting Libyans to 'want what you want' -- UN Security Council Resolution 1973 and the Responsibility to Protect -- The threat of genocide: facts and fiction -- Libya and the Gulf Cooperation Council -- Protecting civilians or jolting for position? -- Libyan Resources -- Mediterranean El Dorado -- Libya's groundwater resources and the Great Man-made River Project -- France and Libya -- Libya and the Financialisation of Energy Markets -- Investment houses and Big Oil -- The Libyan Investment Authority -- The NATO Campaign -- War in Libya: Europe's confused response -- The divisions within the US -- Divisions beyond NATO and in the Mediterranean region -- The African Union and Libya -- The AU's diplomatic efforts -- A statement from African intellectuals -- NATO in Libya as a Military Information Operation -- Disinformation and Operation Dawn Mermaid: When is a war not a war? -- Who Took Tripoli? -- Tawergha and the Myth of 'African Mercenaries' -- The Execution of Gaddafi -- Gaddafi's escape from Tripoli -- US Drones and French jets: pinpointing Gaddafi's location -- Managing the news of the nature of Gaddafi's demise -- NATO's Libyan Mission: A Catastrophic Failure -- Worldwide opposition -- European Isolation in Africa -- Conclusion: NATO and the Recursive Processes of Failure and Destruction in Libya.
Libya's resource nationalism and Gaddafi'ssupport of a strong AU -- NATO's mission in Africa backfires -- Notes and References -- Appendix 1 - LIBYA, AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER: An Open Letter t the Peoples of Africa and the World from Concerned Africans -- Appendix 2 - African Union Peace and Security Council -- Appendix 3 - UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL -- Appendix 4 - CHINESE BUSINESSES IN LIBYA -- Appendix 5 - THIS IS MY WILL -- Back cover.
Abstract:
When the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings erupted in Africa, in the first two months of the year 2011, with the chant, ëthe people want to bring down the regimeí, 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 Aliís 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 ëratsí. The United States (US), Britain and France took the lead to rush through a resolution in the United Nations (UN) Security Council, invoking the principle of the ëresponsibility to protectí. This concept of responsibility to protect had been embraced and supported by many governments in the aftermath of the genocidal episodes in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo. The UN Security Council Resolution 1973 of 2011 was loosely worded, with the formulation ëall necessary measuresí tacked on to ensure wide latitude for those societies and political leaders who orchestrated the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervention in Libya. In the following nine months, the implementation of this UN resolution exposed the real objectives of the leaders of the US, France and Britain. With the Western media fuelling a
propaganda campaign in the traditions of ëmanufacturing consentí, this Security Council authorisation was stretched from a clear and limited civilian protection mandate into a military campaign for regime change and the execution of the President of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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