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

252 Pages·2013·1.1 MB·English

by  Aidan Hehir

Libya, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future
of Humanitarian Intervention
Also by Aidan Hehir
Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction, 2nd edition
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
The Responsibility to Protect: Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian
Intervention (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
International Law, Security and Ethics (co-editor, Routledge, 2011)
Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding (editor, Routledge, 2010)
Humanitarian Intervention after Kosovo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Statebuilding: Theory and Practice (co-editor, Routledge, 2007)
Also by Robert W. Murray
International Security and the Arctic (co-editor, Cambria Press, 2014)
System, Society and the World: Exploring the English School of International Relations
(editor, e-International Relations, 2013)
Libya, the Responsibility
to Protect and the Future
of Humanitarian
Intervention
Edited by
Aidan Hehir
University of Westminster, UK
and
Robert Murray
University of Alberta, Canada
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Contents
Tables and Figures viii
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors x
1 Introduction: Libya and the Responsibility to Protect 1
Aidan Hehir
2 Humanitarianism, Responsibility or Rationality?
Evaluating Intervention as State Strategy 15
Robert W. Murray
3 The Responsibility to Protect as the Apotheosis
of Liberal Teleology 34
Aidan Hehir
4 ‘My Fears, Alas, Were Not Unfounded’:
Africa’s Responses to the Libya Conflict 58
Alex de Waal
5 Africa’s Emerging Regional Security
Culture and the Intervention in Libya 83
Theresa Reinold
6 The Use – and Misuse – of R2P: The Case of Canada 110
Kim Richard Nossal
7 The (D)evolution of a Norm: R2P, the Bosnia
Generation and Humanitarian Intervention in Libya 130
Eric A. Heinze and Brent J. Steele
8 The UN Security Council on Libya:
Legitimation or Dissimulation? 162
Tom Keating
9 NATO’s Intervention in Libya:
A Humanitarian Success? 191
Alan J. Kuperman
10 Conclusion: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya 222
Robert W. Murray
Index 229
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Tables and Figures
Tables
2.1 Traditional prisoner’s dilemma matrix 19
2.2 Cold War prisoner’s dilemma matrix 21
9.1 No ‘bloodbaths’ by Gaddafi forces 203
9.2 Estimated outcome if NATO had not intervened 204
9.3 NATO intervention magnifies the toll 206
Figures
9.1 Rebellion in Eastern Libya: 15–19 February 2011 199
9.2 High point of initial rebellion: 5 March 201
9.3 Rebels’ retreat to Benghazi: 16 March 201
9.4 Rebels converge on Tripoli after five months
of NATO intervention 205
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank everyone at Palgrave Macmillan who helped
bring this project to fruition and each of the contributors to this book.
Aidan would like to thank his colleagues at the Department of Politics
and International Relations at the University of Westminster and all his
friends and family, especially his wife Sarah and daughters, Esmé, Elsie
and Iris.
Robert would like to thank his family, his friends, the feedback and
support of Dr Matthew Weinert (University of Delaware), his colleagues
at the University of Alberta, and to express gratitude for the tireless
work and dedication of his co-editor Aidan.
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