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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812203219
035 _a(DE-B1597)449205
035 _a(OCoLC)859161180
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082 0 4 _a327.73061209
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJohn, Ronald Bruce St
_eautore
245 1 0 _aLibya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife /
_cRonald Bruce St John.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2002
300 _a1 online resource (264 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tChapter 1. Dismal Record --
_tChapter 2. Desert Kingdom --
_tChapter 3. In the Beginning --
_tChapter 4. Postwar Gridlock --
_tChapter 5. Independence at a Price --
_tChapter 6. One September Revolution --
_tChapter 7. Reagan Agonistes --
_tChapter 8. U.S.-Libyan Relations in the Post-Cold War Era --
_tNotes --
_tSelect Bibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aDiplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Libya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife provides a unique and up-to-date analysis of U.S.-Libyan relations, assessing within the framework of conventional historical narrative the interaction of the governments and peoples of Libya and the United States over the past two centuries.Drawing on a wide range of new and unfamiliar material, Ronald Bruce St John, an expert with over thirty years of experience in international relations, charts the instances of ignorance, misunderstanding, treachery, and suffering on both sides that have shaped and limited commercial and diplomatic intercourse.St John argues that Cold War strategies resulted in a paradoxical and ambiguous U.S. policy toward Libya during the Idris regime of the 1960s, strategies that contributed to the bankruptcy of that monarchy. Following the Libyan revolution, the U.S. wrongly believed Qaddafi would become an ally in support of U.S. policy to keep Soviet influence and communism out of the region; his failure to do so marked the beginning of an era of political tension and mutual distrust.Libya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife documents how long-standing policy differences over the Palestinian issue and such terrorist acts as the destruction of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli and the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie in 1988 resulted in a sharp deterioration of relations. St John contends that the ensuing demonization of Libya and the U.S. policy of confrontation, which has spanned successive administrations in Washington, have ironically often not served American interests in the region but, rather, have facilitated Qaddafi's survival.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 4 _aMiddle Eastern.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
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653 _aAfrican Studies.
653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aAsian Studies.
653 _aHistory.
653 _aMiddle Eastern Studies.
653 _aPolitical Science.
653 _aPublic Policy.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203219
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203219
856 4 2 _3Cover
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