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Darfur : the long road to disaster / J. Millard Burr, Robert O. Collins.
Van Pelt Library DT546.48 .B87 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burr, Millard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Chad--History--Civil War, 1965-.
- Chad.
- Chad--History--Civil War, 1965---Participation, Libyan.
- Africa--Foreign relations--1960-.
- Africa.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 347 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Enlarged and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, 2008.
- Contents:
- Maps
- Acronyms
- Preface
- 1. Sahara, Sahel, and Sudan
- Continuities
- Crossing the Sahara
- The power of belief
- The bonds of blood
- Boundaries and frontiers
- Implacable imperialism
- Notes
- 2. Chad : an African conundrum
- France and the Republic of Chad
- The Tombalbaye government
- Seeking support outside Paris
- Revolt in the B.E.T.
- Drought and the insurgency
- FROLINAT
- A nasty little war
- The Tombalbaye fights back
- The return of the French
- French conditions and Tombalbaye's response
- Opposition in France
- The French military in Chad
- The Libyan card
- 3. The Sudan and Tombalbaye : Muslims and Christians
- The Sudan and Chad
- Sadiq al-Mahdi and Chad
- FROLINAT attacks
- The Sahelian drought
- The return of Hasan al-Turabi
- Turabi and Sadiq
- Numayri and Chad
- 4. Libya and Tombalbaye : Muslim Arabs and Christian Africans
- Qaddafi's game
- Geopolitic visions
- The Chad-Libyan boundary dispute revisited
- Cartographic and other territorial aggression
- Hissene Habre
- The Aozou strip
- Drought and man in the Aozou strip and the B.E.T.
- Security for Tombalbaye
- FROLINAT in disarray
- L'affaire claustre
- 5. The struggle for Chad
- The United States and Tombalbaye
- Tombalbaye assassinated the conseil supérieur militaire du Tchad and Felix Malloum
- Presidents Giscard and Malloum
- Dissension within the FAN
- Qaddafi and the Sudan
- Regional geopolitics in a changing world
- Egypt, Libya, Niger, and the OAU
- Habre joins Malloum
- The popular armed forces on the offensive
- 6. Libya threatens Chad
- Habre and the transitional government of national unity
- Political disarray and violence in Ndjamena
- Libyan intervention and GUNT
- France leaves, Libya arrives
- Habre is isolated
- Libya incorporates Chad
- The OAU and Chad
- The Reagan response
- The OAU and Libya
- 7. Habre brings order
- Habre recovers
- Mitterrand assumes command
- Habre on the attack
- Libyan troops depart followed by the GUNT
- Habre triumphant
- The United States and Habre
- Qaddafi in defeat and the beginning of organized terror
- 8. The Libyan counterattack
- The United States, Chad, and the Sudan
- Qaddafi on the attack
- Victories at Ounianga Kebir and Faya
- The Gourane counterattack
- Operation Manta
- Stabilizing the red line
- The Vittel Conference
- Pacifying the south
- Habre's Unir ; Qaddafi's CLN
- More strains within the rebel leadership
- From Tripoli to Crete
- 9. Famine in the B.E.T. : instability in Darfur
- Famine and Western relief
- Instability in the Sudan
- Qaddafi continues to meddle in Chad
- Numayri is deposed
- The Libyan buildup
- Operation Épervier
- The United States attacks Qaddafi
- Sadiq victorious
- Sadiq and Darfur
- 10. Habre victorious
- Acheikh and the CDR revolt
- Goukouni the captive
- Habre conquers all
- Libya attacks Goukouni
- Qaddafi attacks "Ibri"
- Libyan forces in Darfur
- Qaddafi and Khartoum
- Victory at Wadi Doum, Darfur, and Ounianga
- The Fezzan threatened and the Hadjerai revolt
- The FANT invades Libya
- 11. Conflict in Darfur
- Sadiq and the Libyans
- Peace in the B.E.T.
- 1988 in Ndjamena, Tripoli, and el Fasher
- Deby and the Zaghawa defy Habre
- The collapse of the Chad-Libya rapprochement
- Tribal tensions in Darfur
- Revolution in the Sudan
- Libya-Sudan brotherhood
- The Algiers agreement and the Aozou
- Habre and Deby struggle for Darfur
- 12. Deby victorious
- The Libya-Sudan integration charter
- Deby takes the offensive
- Reaction in Darfur
- Drought in Darfur
- Deby counterattacks, again
- The more things change
- 13. A tenuous peace before the conflict resumes in Darfur and Chad
- Regional realignment
- Chad in political change
- Habre, hail and farewell
- France, Deby, and oil
- The Aozou solution
- 14. Disaster in Darfur
- The price of impotence
- The crisis in Darfur : Sudan liberation movement/army
- Justice and equality movement (JEM)
- The war
- The international community struggles to respond
- The media, diplomacy, and humanitarians
- Prevarications and genocide
- 15. Epilogue
- The Chadian connection
- The Abuja agreement
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1558764704
- 9781558764699
- 1558764690
- 9781558764705
- OCLC:
- 184982547
- Publisher Number:
- 99951811867
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