Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State

ISBN-13: 9781848138476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str.

Colin M. Waugh

Opis

Campaigner, insurgent, arms dealer, warlord, commodity trafficker, elected president, international fugitive, and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his native Liberia to change but instead destroyed it in a frenzy of violence, greed, and uncontrolled personal ambition. In the process, he threw much of Liberia's neighboring region into turmoil for over a decade, finally facing judgment in The Hague for his role in the Sierra Leone conflict. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, Colin Waugh examines both the life of Taylor himself, as well as the sometimes idealistic but often self-interested efforts of the international community to first save Liberia and the region from disaster, then, having failed to do so, to bring to justice the man it deems most to blame for the turmoil.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1. The Land of the Freed 1. Foundations of a Settlement 2. The Spirit of Liberia 3. Confronting the Old Order Part 2. From Dictatorship to Anarchy 4. Sergeant-in-Charge: Samuel Doe's presidency 5. Doe's Decline, Taylor's Travels 6. Charles Taylor's War 7. The Pantomime of Peace Part 3. Power in Greater Liberia 8. Greater Liberia: Prospering and Assimilating 9.. Sierra Leone: Liberia's Sister Revolution 10. Election Victory and the Taylor Presidency Part 4. Fallout from a Revolution 11. A Government Embattled 12. Relations with the United States 13. Liberian Legacy 14. Justice a la Carte Bibliography