Libya, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention

by A. Hehir (Editor), R. Murray (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137273956
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	05/29/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	801 KB

About the Author

Professor Alex de Waal, Tufts University, USA Dr Eric Heinze, University of Oklahoma, USA Professor Tom Keating, University of Alberta, Canada Professor Alan Kuperman, University of Texas at Austin, USA Professor Kim Richard Nossal, Queen's University, Canada Dr Theresa Reinold, Social Science Research Centre Berlin, Germany Dr Brent Steele, University of Kansas, USA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables 1. Introduction: Libya and the Responsibility to Protect; Aidan Hehir 2. Humanitarianism, Responsibility or Rationality? Evaluating Intervention as State Strategy; Robert W. Murray 3. The Responsibility to Protect as the Apotheosis of Liberal Teleology; Aidan Hehir 4. 'My Fears, Alas, Were Not Unfounded:' Africa's Responses to the Libya Conflict; Alex de Waal 5. Africa's Emerging Regional Security Culture and the Intervention in Libya; Theresa Reinold 6. The Use – and Misuse – of R2P: the Case of Canada; Kim Richard Nossal 7. The (D)evolution of a Norm: R2P, the Bosnia Generation and Humanitarian Intervention in Libya; Eric A. Heinze and Brent J. Steele 8. The UN Security Council on Libya: Legitimation or Dissimulation?; Tom Keating 9. NATO's Intervention in Libya: A Humanitarian Success?; Alan Kuperman 10. Conclusion: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya; Robert W. Murray

Editorial Reviews

"The Libyan intervention has been greeted as demonstrating the arrival of R2P. This excellent collection critically dissects these claims. Recommended for all those interested in the shifting debates concerning international intervention, law, ethics and humanitarian action."

- David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK

"This collection's incisive, critical analyses will set the terms of the debate over the 2011 Libya intervention, as well as shine much-needed light on the politics and future of the 'Responsibility to Protect' in Africa and around the world."

- Adam Branch, San Diego State University, USA

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