Darfur
Subtitle: the long road to disaster
By: J. Millard Burr, Robert O. Collins.
Contributors: Collins, Robert O., 1933-
Edition: Enlarged and updated ed.
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9781558764699; 9781558764705
Subjects: Chad -- History -- Civil War, 1965-; Chad -- History -- Civil War, 1965- -- Participation, Libyan; Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sahara, Sahel, and Sudan; title: Continuities; title: Crossing the Sahara; title: The power of belief; title: The bonds of blood; title: Boundaries and frontiers; title: Implacable imperialism; title: Chad : an African conundrum; title: France and the Republic of Chad; title: The Tombalbaye government; title: Seeking support outside Paris; title: Revolt in the B.E.T.; title: Drought and the insurgency; title: Rolinat; title: A nasty little war; title: The Tombalbaye fights back; title: The return of the French; title: French conditions and Tombalbaye's response; title: Opposition in France; title: The French military in Chad; title: The Libyan card; title: The Sudan and Tombalbaye : Muslims and Christians; title: The Sudan and Chad; title: Sadiq al-Mahdi and Chad; title: Frolinat attacks; title: The Sahelian drought; title: The return of Hasan al-Turabi; title: Turabi and Sadiq; title: Numayri and Chad; title: Libya and Tombalbaye : Muslim Arabs and Christian Africans; title: Qaddafi's game; title: Geopolitic visions; title: The Chad-Libyan boundary dispute revisited; title: Cartographic and other territorial aggression; title: Hissene Habre; title: The Aozou strip; title: Drought and man in the Aozou strip and the B.E.T.; title: Security for Tombalbaye; title: Frolinat in disarray; title: L'affaire claustre; title: The struggle for Chad; title: The United States and Tombalbaye; title: Tombalbaye assassinated  the conseil supérieur militaire du Tchad and Felix Malloum; title: Presidents Giscard and Malloum; title: Dissension within the FAN; title: Qaddafi and the Sudan; title: The return of the French; title: Regional geopolitics in a changing world; title: Egypt, Libya, Niger, and the OAU; title: Habre joins Malloum; title: The popular armed forces on the offensive; title: Libya threatens Chad; title: Habre and the transitional government of national unity; title: Political disarray and violence in Ndjamena; title: Libyan intervention and gunt; title: France leaves, Libya arrives; title: Habre is isolated; title: Libya incorporates Chad; title: The OAU and Chad; title: The Reagan response; title: The OAU and Libya; title: Habre brings order; title: Habre recovers; title: Mitterrand assumes command; title: Habre on the attack; title: Libyan troops depart followed by the Gunt; title: Habre triumphant; title: The United States and Habre; title: Qaddafi in defeat and the beginning of organized terror; title: The Libyan counterattack; title: The United States, Chad, and the Sudan; title: Qaddafi on the attack; title: Victories at Ounianga Kebir and Faya; title: The Gourane counterattack; title: Operation Manta; title: Stabilizing the red line; title: The Vittel Conference; title: Pacifying the south; title: Habre's Unir ; Qaddafi's CLN; title: More strains within the rebel leadership; title: From Tripoli to Crete; title: Famine in the B.E.T. : instability in Darfur; title: Famine and western relief; title: Instability in the Sudan; title: Qaddafi continues to meddle in Chad; title: Numayri is deposed; title: The Libyan buildup; title: Operation épervier; title: The United States attacks Qaddafi; title: Sadiq victorious; title: Sadiq and Darfur; title: Habre victorious; title: Acheikh and the CDR revolt; title: Goukouni the captive; title: Habre conquers all; title: Libya attacks Goukouni; title: Qaddafi attacks Ibri; title: Libyan forces in Darfur; title: Qaddafi and Khartoum; title: Victory at Wadi Doum, Darfur, and Ounianga; title: The Fezzan threatened and the Hadjerai revolt; title: The Fant invades Libya; title: Conflict in Darfur; title: Sadiq and the Libyans; title: Peace in the B.E.T.; title: 1988 in Ndjamena, Tripoli, and el Fasher; title: Deby and the Zaghawa defy Habre; title: The collapse of the Chad-Libya rapprochement; title: Tribal tensions in Darfur; title: Revolution in the Sudan; title: Libya-Sudan brotherhood; title: The Algiers agreement and the Aozou; title: Habre and Deby struggle for Darfur; title: Deby victorious; title: The Libya-Sudan integration charter; title: Deby takes the offensive; title: Reaction in Darfur; title: Drought in Darfur; title: Deby counterattacks, again; title: The more things change; title: A tenuous peace before the conflict resumes in Darfur and Chad; title: Regional realignment; title: Chad in political change; title: Habre, hail and farewell; title: France, Deby, and oil; title: The Aozou solution; title: Disaster in Darfur; title: The price of impotence; title: The crisis in Darfur : Sudan liberation movement/army; title: Justice and equality movement (JEM); title: The war; title: The international community struggles to respond; title: The media, diplomacy, and humanitarians; title: Prevarications and genocide; title: The Chadian connection; title: The Abuja agreement.