LEADER 04538nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910828968903321 005 20240418031531.0 010 $a0-8122-0321-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203219 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418315 035 $a(OCoLC)859161180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748631 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11522008 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11002232 035 $a(PQKB)10939399 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26823 035 $a(DE-B1597)449205 035 $a(OCoLC)1024010323 035 $a(OCoLC)1029828247 035 $a(OCoLC)979577996 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203219 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442199 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748631 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442199 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418315 100 $a20020201d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLibya and the United States $etwo centuries of strife /$fRonald Bruce St. John 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51119-5 311 $a0-8122-3672-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$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 330 $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 1960's, 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. 606 $aInternational relations 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zLibya 607 $aLibya$xForeign relations$zUnited States 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a327.730612/09 700 $aSt. John$b Ronald Bruce$0560535 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828968903321 996 $aLibya and the United States$9937701 997 $aUNINA