The Unknown Unknowns of Humanitarian War
On March 19, 2011, the United States, its European allies, and its Arab partners launched an eight-month intervention in Libya. This was said to be necessary because Mu'amar Gaddafi, Libya's longtime ruler, was responding to mass protests against his over forty-year dictatorial reign by wa...
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| description | On March 19, 2011, the United States, its European allies, and its Arab partners launched an eight-month intervention in Libya. This was said to be necessary because Mu'amar Gaddafi, Libya's longtime ruler, was responding to mass protests against his over forty-year dictatorial reign by waging war on his own people. As President Barack Obama explained, without international intervention “the calls of the Libyan people for help would go unanswered. The democratic values that we stand for would be overrun. Moreover, the words of the international community would be rendered hollow.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-850f063ec19c42b7961d32ff9f153f712023-03-09T12:27:10ZengCambridge University PressAJIL Unbound2398-77232017-01-0111129730110.1017/aju.2017.73The Unknown Unknowns of Humanitarian WarMohamed S. Helal0Assistant Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law & Affiliated Faculty, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University. The author thanks Christiane Ahlborn, Curtis Bradley, Cinnamon Carlarne, Ashley Deeks, Monica Hakimi, Benedict Kingsbury, and Dakota Rudesill for their insightful comments on this essay.On March 19, 2011, the United States, its European allies, and its Arab partners launched an eight-month intervention in Libya. This was said to be necessary because Mu'amar Gaddafi, Libya's longtime ruler, was responding to mass protests against his over forty-year dictatorial reign by waging war on his own people. As President Barack Obama explained, without international intervention “the calls of the Libyan people for help would go unanswered. The democratic values that we stand for would be overrun. Moreover, the words of the international community would be rendered hollow.”https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772317000733/type/journal_article |
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