In this incisive account, scholar Horace Campbell investigates the
political and economic crises of the early twenty-first century through
the prism of NATO’s intervention in Libya. He traces the origins of the
conflict, situates it in the broader context of the Arab Spring
uprisings, and explains the expanded role of a post-Cold War NATO. This
military organization, he argues, is the instrument through which the
capitalist class of North America and Europe seeks to impose its
political will on the rest of the world, however warped by the
increasingly outmoded neoliberal form of capitalism. The intervention in
Libya—characterized by bombing campaigns, military information
operations, third party countries, and private contractors—exemplifies
this new model.
Campbell points out that while political elites in the West were quick
to celebrate the intervention in Libya as a success, the NATO campaign
caused many civilian deaths and destroyed the nation’s infrastructure.
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