Libya and the Responsibility to Protect: Between Opportunistic Humanitarianism and Value-Free Pragmatism

dc.contributor.authorThakur, Ramesh
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:09:01Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.updated2020-11-08T07:25:52Z
dc.description.abstractSince the Treaty of Westphalia, sovereignty has been backed by the norm of nonintervention. By contrast, the responsibility to protect (R2P) strikes a balance between unauthorised unilateral interventions and institutionalised indifference. With a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in Libya in early 2011, the United Nations (UN) authorised the use of force to protect an imminent slaughter of civilians but prohibited taking sides in the internal civil war, intervening with ground troops, or effecting forcible regime change. The record of NATO actions in Libya marks a triumph for R2P but also raises questions about how to prevent the abuse of UN authority to use international force for purposes beyond human protection.
dc.identifier.issn1833-1459
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/28844
dc.publisherKokoda Foundation
dc.rightsThe publisher permission to archive the version was granted via email on 20/04/2015
dc.sourceSecurity Challenges
dc.titleLibya and the Responsibility to Protect: Between Opportunistic Humanitarianism and Value-Free Pragmatism
dc.typeJournal article
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage25
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage13
local.contributor.affiliationThakur, Ramesh, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu3939636@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidThakur, Ramesh, u3939636
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor180114 - Human Rights Law
local.identifier.absfor160607 - International Relations
local.identifier.absseo940302 - International Aid and Development
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9905225xPUB60
local.identifier.citationvolume7
local.identifier.thomsonID000214050600002
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9905225
local.type.statusPublished Version

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