R2p And The Us Intervention In Libya

Author : Paul Tang Abomo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319788319

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R2P and the US Intervention in Libya by Paul Tang Abomo Pdf

This book argues that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Libyan people played an important role in the U.S.’s decision to act, both in terms of how the language of deliberation was framed and the implementation of the actual intervention once all preventive means had been exhausted. While the initial ethos of the intervention followed international norms, the author argues that as the conflict continued to unfold, the Obama administration’s loss of focus and lack of political will for post-conflict resolution, as well as a wider lack of understanding of ever changing politics on the ground, resulted in Libya’s precipitation into chaos. By examining the cases of Rwanda and Darfur alongside the interventions in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, the book discusses how these cases influenced current decision-making with regards to foreign interventions and offers a triangular framework through which to understand R2P: responsibility to prevent, react and rebuild.

Author : A. Hehir,R. Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137273956

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Libya, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention by A. Hehir,R. Murray Pdf

This book critically analyses the 2011 intervention in Libya arguing that the manner in which the intervention was sanctioned, prosecuted and justified has a number of troubling implications for the both the future of humanitarian intervention and international peace and security.

Author : A. Hehir,R. Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137273956

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Libya, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention by A. Hehir,R. Murray Pdf

This book critically analyses the 2011 intervention in Libya arguing that the manner in which the intervention was sanctioned, prosecuted and justified has a number of troubling implications for the both the future of humanitarian intervention and international peace and security.

Author : Karin Wester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108477062

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Intervention in Libya by Karin Wester Pdf

An original reconstruction of the evolution of and international diplomatic response to the 2011 Libyan crisis, which draws on a diverse range of sources including in-depth interviews with politicians and diplomats to understand the real-world application of the UN's 'Responsibility to Protect' principle.

Author : Dag Henriksen,Ann Karin Larssen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198767480

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Political Rationale and International Consequences of the War in Libya by Dag Henriksen,Ann Karin Larssen Pdf

This volume examines the political rationale for the various actors in the lead-up and conduct of the military intervention in Libya, and goes on to examine its broader consequences.

Author : Kjell Engelbrekt,Marcus Mohlin,Charlotte Wagnsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134514038

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The NATO Intervention in Libya by Kjell Engelbrekt,Marcus Mohlin,Charlotte Wagnsson Pdf

This book explores ‘lessons learned’ from the military intervention in Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign. NATO’s intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an explicit UN Security Council mandate to use military force, a strong European commitment to protect Libyan civilians, Arab League political endorsement and American engagement in the critical, initial phase of the air campaign. Although the seven-month intervention stretched NATO’s ammunition stockpiles and political will almost to their respective breaking points, the definitive overthrow of the Gaddafi regime is universally regarded as a major accomplishment. With contributions from a range of key thinkers and analysts in the field, the book first explains the law and politics of the intervention, starting out with deliberations in NATO and at the UN Security Council, both noticeably influenced by the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P). It then goes on to examine a wide set of military and auxiliary measures that governments and defence forces undertook in order to increasingly tilt the balance against the Gaddafi regime and to bring about an end to the conflict, as well as to the intervention proper, while striving to keep the number of NATO and civilian casualties to a minimum. This book will be of interest to students of strategic studies, history and war studies, and IR in general.

Author : Paolo Sensini
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780986085383

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Sowing Chaos by Paolo Sensini Pdf

In early 2011, Libya came under attack by NATO countries purporting to engage in a humanitarian intervention to protect the Libyan people. In actuality, this was part of a larger-scale Western strategy to redesign the entire Middle East to suit its interests. This book addresses Libyan history of the last hundred years, from the main phases of the Italian military occupation (1911-1943) to the dramatic events of our own times, including an account of the post-war monarchy, Gaddafi’s rise to power, the air strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi ordered by Reagan in 1986, and the Lockerbie affair. Sensini exposes the 2011 misrepresentations by the mainstream media, major NGOs and even the International Criminal Court that sought to legitimize the NATO attack. He takes a close look at the Western organized and financed “rebels” in Benghazi who provided the pretext for UN approval of Resolution1973 embodying the new so-called “responsibility to protect” (R2P) doctrine. This criminal intervention devastated Libya, unleashing a civil war unlikely to cease in the near future. Sensini sheds light on the role of Hillary Clinton and the 11 September 2012 murder of American Ambassador Chris Stevens. The R2P upshot? Untold waves of migrants seeking to flee the continental chaos, leading to thousands of deaths and drownings across the Mediterranean, and the potential destabilization of Europe. “Dismissing the claim that the West’s Gaddafi-killing intervention in Libya, which played a big role in the chaos in the Middle East, was for humanitarian reasons, this book explains the real reasons. Of special interest is the author’s discussion of the central role played by “the ever-destructive Hillary Clinton.” – David Ray Griffin,

Author : Horace Campbell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583674123

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Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya by Horace Campbell Pdf

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. Furthermore, the instability it unleashed in the forms of militias and terrorist groups have only begun to be reckoned with, as the United States learned when its embassy was attacked and personnel, including the ambassador, were killed. Campbell’s lucid study is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand this complex and weighty course of events.

Author : Kjell Engelbrekt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Intervention
ISBN : OCLC:953492914

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The NATO Intervention in Libya by Kjell Engelbrekt Pdf

Author : D. Fiott,J. Koops
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137364401

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The Responsibility to Protect and the Third Pillar by D. Fiott,J. Koops Pdf

As the RtoP moves from norm to operationalization, greater analysis of action to halt crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing is needed. This uncovers opportunities and challenges associated with third pillar interventions by looking at legal, economic, political, military and alternative interventions in third-countries.

Author : Francis A. Boyle
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780986036200

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Destroying Libya and World Order by Francis A. Boyle Pdf

It took three decades for the United States government-spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II , and Obama)-to terminate the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution, seize control over Libya’s oil fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what was both wrong and illegal with that from the perspective of an international law professor and lawyer who tried for over three decades to stop it. Francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and critique of American foreign policy toward Libya from when the Reagan administration came to power in January of 1981 up to the 2011 NA TO war on Libya that ultimately achieved the US goal of regime change, and beyond. He sets the record straight on the series of military conflicts and crises between the United States and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, exposing the Reagan administration’s fraudulent claims of Libyan instigation of international terrorism put forward over his eight years in office. Boyle reveals the inside story behind the Lockerbie bombing cases against the United States and the United Kingdom that he filed at the World Court for Colonel Qaddafi acting upon his advice-and the unjust resolution of those disputes. Deploying standard criteria of international law, Boyle analyzes and debunks the UN R2P “responsibility to protect” doctrine and its immediate predecessor, “humanitarian intervention”. He addresses how R2P served as the basis for the NATO assault on Libya in 2011, overriding the UN Charter commitment to state sovereignty and prevention of aggression. The purported NATO protection in actuality led to 50,000 Libyan casualties, and the complete breakdown of law and order. And this is just the beginning. Boyle lays out the ramifications: the destabilization of the Maghreb and Sahel, and the French intervention in Mali-with the USA/NATO/Europe starting a new imperial scramble for the natural resources of Africa. This book is not only a classic case study of the conduct of US foreign policy as it relates to international law, but a damning indictment of the newly-contrived R2P doctrine as legal cover for Western intervention into third world countries.

Author : Christopher S. Chivvis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041479

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Toppling Qaddafi by Christopher S. Chivvis Pdf

A highly readable look at the role of the US and NATO in Libya's war of liberation, and its lessons for future military interventions.

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0889369631

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The Responsibility to Protect by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Author : Desmond Tutu,Václav Havel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199797769

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The Responsibility to Protect by Desmond Tutu,Václav Havel Pdf

'The Responsibility to Protect' provides a comprehensive view on how this contemporary principle has developed and analyzes how to best apply it to current humanitarian crises.

Author : Alex J. Bellamy,Edward C. Luck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509512478

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The Responsibility to Protect by Alex J. Bellamy,Edward C. Luck Pdf

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) principle. As often as not, however, R2P has failed to translate into decisive action. Why does this gap persist between the world’s normative pledges to R2P and its ability to make it a daily lived reality? In this new book, leading global authorities on humanitarian protection Alex Bellamy and Edward Luck offer a probing and in-depth response to this fundamental question, calling for a more comprehensive approach to the practice of R2P – one that moves beyond states and the UN to include the full range of actors that play a role in protecting vulnerable populations. Drawing on cases from the Middle East to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, they examine the forces and conditions that produce atrocity crimes and the challenge of responding to them quickly and effectively. Ultimately, they advocate both for emergency policies to temporarily stop carnage and for policies leading to sustainable change within societies and governments. Only by introducing these additional elements to the R2P toolkit will the failures associated with humanitarian crises like Syria and Libya become a thing of the past.