Libya: The Struggle for Survival

From Library Journal
In this prodigiously researched book, veteran British journalist Simons sets out to produce three distinct works: an investigative essay on Libyan involvement in the Lockerbie explosion, a descriptive sketch of modern Libya, and an analytical survey of Libyan foreign relations, especially those with the United States. He seeks to portray American policies of disinformation, economic sanctions, and the 1986 bombing raid from a perspective sympathetic to Gaddafi. Holding that "the most important factors of modern Libya are oil and Gaddafi," Simon says that the United States has pursued an interventionist foreign policy toward Libya in order to gain access to that oil by ousting Gaddafi. In the Lockerbie matter, Simons argues that the United States sought to blame Libya to the exclusion of other involved Middle Eastern parties in order to isolate Gaddafi even further from the international community. This perspective stands in stark contrast to Brian L. Davis's Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya (Praeger, 1990) and John Davis's Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution (Univ. of California Pr., 1988). While not totally convincing in its general argument, the book is fascinating in its amassed detail and belongs in all large public and academic libraries.- James Rhodes, Luther Coll., Decorah, Ia.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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This book charts in detail the West's response, particularly that of the US, to Libya's possible involvement in the bombing of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in 1988. It suggests that this response cannot be fully understood without the consideration of the role of the US as sole military superpower in the New World Order.



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This book chart in detail the West's response, particularly that of the US, to Libya's possible involvement in the bombing of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in 1988.


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