Nathaniel K. Powell

France's Wars in Chad (eBook, ePUB)

Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the continuous French military interventions in Chad in the two decades after its independence, this study demonstrates how France's successful counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of Francois Tombalbaye would ultimately weaken the Chadian state and encourage Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to intervene. In covering the subsequent French efforts to counter Libyan ambitions and the rise to power of Hissene Habre, one of postcolonial Africa's most brutal dictators, Nathaniel K. Powell demonstrates that French strategies aiming to prevent the collapse of authoritarian regimes had the opposite effect, exacerbating violent conflicts and foreign interventions in Chad and further afield. Based on extensive archival research to trace the causes, course, and impact of French interventions in Chad, this study offers insights and lessons for current interveners - including France - fighting a 'war on terrorism' in the Sahel whose strategies and impact parallel those of France in the 1960s-1980s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108800525
• Artikelnr.: 62745849

Autorenporträt

Nathaniel K. Powell is an historian focusing on the history of postcolonial Franco-African relations. Awarded his PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, he has published extensively on the history of postcolonial Franco-African relations and on French military interventions in Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. 'Experts in decolonization'
2. Limousin
3. The claustre affair
4. The empire strikes back: French intervention and return to war
5. The return of Habré
6. Nigeria enters the scene
7. The decline and fall of the central African empire
8. Libya invades
9. Endgame
Conclusions: The collapse of a neocolonial order
References
Index.