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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 124–132.
Published: 01 June 2011
... action against Gaddafi’s forces appropriate or justified?” I ask the panel. Again, not a single hand. Certainly not appropriate, responds Liberia’s Leymah Gbowee, indignantly. Forgetting that it was in fact armed intervention by Western forces under U.N. command that brought an end to civil war...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 101–110.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... Last year’s NATO intervention in Libya provides an imperfect template. Broader international participation, better military coordination with anti-Gaddafi Libyans and a more robust United Nations resolution all would have helped. But Libya 2011 was everything Iraq 2003 was not. The revolt against...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 116–125.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., we can see a firsthand laboratory for how these two approaches have worked out. In Libya, the West plunged right in virtually from the get-go, taking out Gaddafi’s air defense system, then establishing and maintaining a no-fly zone, finally using a flock of cruise missiles to interdict heavy armor...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 86–93.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of a gunfight where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed. One government’s subversive rebels can be another government’s freedom fighters. The United States and its NATO allies helped rebels overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, though the anti-Gaddafi forces scavenged small arms or acquired them from...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2011
... to alcoholism, Russia has evolved only marginally from the communist or even the earlier tsarist era. Map Room reveals some surprising truths about what the people of Yemen think about al-Qaida. Finally, World Policy Journal editor David A. Andelman, in his Coda, reflects on how little Muammar Gaddafi has...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 68–79.
Published: 01 September 2012
... into postelection violence that occurred in 2007-08 has prompted attempts to orchestrate a mass African exodus from the court and, more recently, to move relevant cases to African soil. And in Libya, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, is being held in the mountain town of Zintan amid uncertainty over...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 21–33.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., are obliged to join prayers five times a day. Smoking is banned, and traditional Islamic dress is mandatory. Towering above the complex is the 10,000-person capacity Muammar Gaddafi Mosque—built with funding from the Libyan government’s international missionary arm. Just across the expressway, a similar...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 27–38.
Published: 01 December 2012
... has also visited Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, Cameroon, and Nigeria. By contrast, U.S. President Barack Obama has paid a single 20-hour visit to an African nation, Ghana, during his entire first four-year term. When rebels toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the continent lost one of the biggest donors of aid...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 35–40.
Published: 01 June 2011
... might be their powerful supporters. Effectively, you seem to be advocating a political as well as an economic revolution. De Soto: I’ve got a project in Libya. I was called in by Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who said the writing’s on the wall if we don’t do something about that informal economy that you...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 108–117.
Published: 01 June 2013
...David A. Andelman In 1995, while based in Paris for CBS News, I was dispatched urgently down to Chad in central Africa where there was some evidence that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was contemplating a new incursion across the Sahara into Chad. French troops, only recently withdrawn from...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 65–74.
Published: 01 September 2014
... by Colonel Gaddafi’s regime that gave the MNLA the skills and equipment to launch its incursions. This last factor—whose importance stretches far beyond Mali’s own borders—has not been lost on Corporal Alagi Touré. A soldier in the Malian army for 12 years, and a veteran of numerous desert operations...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 33–42.
Published: 01 March 2012
... crisis last year, he supported “his friend” Muammar Gaddafi against “imperialist aggressions,” saying, “the Yankee empire cannot dominate the world.” Today, Chávez continues to cement Venezuela’s relations with another anti-American ally, Iran. In his visit to Caracas in January, Iranian President...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 94–105.
Published: 01 December 2012
... minister Silvio Berlusconi signed over to then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi beneath a desert tent in Benghazi—was judged by Time magazine to be “an unprecedented act of contrition by a former European colonial power.” Recently, in October 2012, France’s new Socialist president, Francois Hollande...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 101–112.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., effectively shuttering each of them, for having defamed none other than Muammar Gaddafi. Then there’s the journalist Ali Amar, whose latest work, a somewhat unflattering portrayal of Mohammed VI, was banned entirely in Morocco. Ayouch’s reaction to both actions, when queried by a visiting reporter from Paris...