World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 1

Humanitarian Intervention: Morals versus Realism: The Use of Force in the Defence of Human Rights in Libya

  • Author:
  • Milad M Elharathi
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • Page Number: 72 to 84

Online published on 16 June, 2014.

Abstract

While it is evident that NATO played a major military role in the Libyan insurrection, this paper analyses the reasons for this intervention and why it did not take similar action in Tunisia or Egypt. It also investigates whether the organisation succeeded in its alleged goals to establish democracy and stability in Libya