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Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa
Maximilian Forte
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Description for Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa
Paperback. Examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. Arguing that NATO's war is part of a larger process of militarising US relations with Africa, this account shows that Western relations with a "rehabilitated" Libya were shaky at best, mired in distrust, and exhibiting a preference for regime change. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Baraka Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
559g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781926824529
SKU
V9781926824529
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99-50
About Maximilian Forte
Maximilian Forte is an associate professor of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Indigenous Cosmopolitans, Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary, and Ruins of Absence, Presence of Caribs: (Post) Colonial Representations of Aboriginality in Trinidad and Tobago. He lives in Montreal.
Reviews for Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa
Slouching Towards Sirte is a penetrating critique, not only of the NATO intervention in Libya, but of the concept of humanitarian intervention and imperialism in our time. It is the definitive treatment of NATO's war on Libya. It is difficult to imagine it will be surpassed." —www.gowans.wordpress.com "Forte's allegations that NATO's war was manufactured by liberal interventionists and 'iPad ... Read more