Qaddafis Libya in World Politics / / Yehudit Ronen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ronen, Yehudit,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 p.)

Libya's enigmatic Muammar Qaddafi demonstrated a perhaps unprecedented capacity for reinvention and survival, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. Yehudit Ronen traces Libya's sometimes tortuous trajectory in international affairs across the four decades of Qaddafi's leadership. Ronen addresses a range of critical issues: oil politics, foreign military adventurism, WMDs, international terrorism, the confrontation between Islam and the West, and the constraints of US policy in the Middle East. She also sheds abundant light on the many ways that domestic politics under Qaddafi affected Libya's international role. From internal leadership rivalries to international strategic quandaries, she navigates the major course corrections that reoriented the country's focus from the Arab Middle East and the Soviet Union to the African continent and the West.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Revolution and Qaddafi’s Expanding Horizons -- 2 Libya and the United States: Conflict in the Cold War Era -- 3 Libyan-US Relations in the New World Order -- 4 Strategic Alignment with the USSR: Balancing Against the West -- 5 The Dynamics of Inter-Arab Relations: Courtship and Rejection -- 6 Abandoning Pan-Arabism: A Libyan Heartbreak -- 7 Charting a New Course in Africa: Military Involvement in Uganda -- 8 Intervention in Chad: Warfare and Collapsed Aspirations -- 9 A New Quest for Unity and Leadership in Africa -- 10 Conclusion: Qaddafi’s Changing Strategies for Survival -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book