Libya And The United States, Two Centuries Of Strife by Patricia St. John
Two Centuries of Strife
A concise political and diplomatic history that follows more than two centuries of US–Libyan interaction, showing how strategic interests, oil, colonial legacies and ideological clashes produced repeated cycles of engagement and confrontation—from early contacts through Ottoman and Italian rule to the 1969 revolution and the rise of Muammar Qaddafi—detailing key events such as sanctions, the 1986 US airstrike, the Lockerbie bombing, and the long struggle over terrorism and compensation, and concluding with Libya’s eventual abandonment of WMD programs and cautious reintegration amid persistent internal and regional instability.
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- 2002
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- British
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- English
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