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- Title: Power and Force: Libya's Relations with the United States (Third WORLD PROBLEMS AND ISSUES: PAST AND Present) (Essay)
- Author : Journal of Third World Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 317 KB
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INTRODUCTION Qaddafi has been described as irrational, impulsive, erratic, unpredictable, quixotic, bizarre, and saturated with insatiable ambition. However, one cannot view the Libyan president through the prism or perspective of Western nations. This paper contends that intrinsic to the relations between the United States and Libya during the Qaddafi regime is the competition for power. In spite of force and the threat of force, and unlike King Idris Al-Sanusi's Libya (1) and many African governments, the Libyan administration of Qaddafi has pursued a foreign policy of confrontation, self- assertion, aggression, and competition for power with the United States. Moreover, after nearly three decades of isolation and containment by the United States, in the end, it was not force but diplomacy that brought about a resolution of the quagmire. Despite his shortcomings, Qaddafi remains a leader to be reckoned with.