R2P and the US Intervention in Libya

• Main Author: Tang Abomo, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Security, International.; International relations.; International humanitarian law.; Human rights.; International organization.; International Security Studies.; Foreign Policy.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Human Rights.; International Relations Theory.; International Organization.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Responsibility to Protect: The History of a Growing Norm
• 3. Theory and Methods
• 4. U.S. Foreign Policy in the Context of Humanitarian Intervention
• 5. Historical Context of U.S. - Libyan Relations (prior to 2011)
• 6. R2P Norm of "Prevention" in U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Libyan Civil War
• 7. R2P Norm of "Reaction" in U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Libyan Civil War
• 8. R2P Norm of "Rebuilding" in U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Libyan Civil War
• 9. General Conclusion: R2P After Libya.