Libya and the West
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-0-19-022303-8
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Buch. Softcover
2025
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 312 S.
Format (B x L): 13.8 x 20.5 cm
Gewicht: 364
Verlag: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-022303-8
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Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: What Everyone Needs to Know
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policies. Among the crucial episodes that this book embraces are fascist Italy's military conquest and colonization of Libya; the expulsion of Axis armies from Libya and other north African states during World War II; the enthronement of King Idris in 1951; the discovery of oil in Libya in 1959. It explains the
seizure of power by Muammar Qaddafi in 1969; the low-intensity military conflict between the United States and Libya in the 1980s; the Western response to Libyan acts of terrorism, including the murder of a British police officer in London in 1984 and the downing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988; the enduring turmoil sparked by the Arab Spring in 2011; the decision by NATO powers to intervene militarily in the Libyan civil war to ensure the downfall of the Qaddafi regime; and the murder of U.S.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens at Benghazi in 2012.
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