Libyan Government Case

NATO has impacted human rights around the world by enforcing existing laws, forging alliances between countries, and being a trailblazer in protecting human rights. During the Libyan Civil War of 2011, protestors that wanted democracy were brutally subdued and slaughtered by the special forces of the Libyan government (Haglund). Since they are the ones perpetrating the atrocities, it is natural that they would not want the international community to interfere. However, NATO successfully invoked the Responsibility to Protect, which is an idea adopted by the UN in 2005 that when a country is either unable or unwilling to protect its citizens from war crimes, ethnic cleansing, or in this case, crimes against humanity, then others can step

This article The Gulf of Oil: The Deep Dilemma published by Monica Eckman adapted from “The Gulf of Oil: The Deep Dilemma” by Joel K. Bourne Jr.: National Geographic Magazine, October 2010.

Interesting topic! When reading your post, a question came to mind, does the Libyan crisis lie in government, struggle of power or the distrust toward Libya’s public financial system? Your research seems very broad, how might the topic be narrow down, so you concentrate on the most important aspect of your questions? Additionally, which questions are you concentrating on the

Informants watched people in government offices, factories, and schools, and dissidents both at home and living abroad were executed or assassinated.” (Recknagel, 2011:1) As well, fear was instilled across the country from Gaddafi’s forty member team of highly trained women bodyguards. Gaddafi had previously been linked to supporting many terrorist attacks, such as, the Lockerbie bombing and the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing. Therefore, from a realist perspective, Libyans had a legitimate reason to resort to civil war because of rational self interest. Libyans feared what actions the regime may undertake if they remained in power.

million men in the Italian army based in Libya (Jorge 1). In neighboring Egypt, the British

Army to Libya and the operation lasted more than 60 days. The main point is that in order to claim that the War Power Resolution is applicable to an operation, the Army should be introduced into hostilities. President Obama did not want to interfere with the enemy directly to sidestep the War Power Resolution in order to prevent any type of reaction by the Congress that might have prevented the “military assessment” for Libya. This was another sign of ineffectiveness of the War Power Resolution and another evidence that showed it interfered with military strategy. If we look at what happened in Libya, Muammar Gadhafi, the leader of the country, decided to kill all the citizens “house by house, room by room . . . [with] no mercy and no

Unlike what is emphasized by Obama in Extract 1, vast social reforms, immense welfare program, infrastructure-building were underway in Libya. As have been mentioned previously, Libya was one of the Africa’s most prosperous country due to the reforms that were done under Gaddafi’s regime. And as a result, by the time the 2011 crisis was unfolding, few people, mainly in the western world, were inclined to have any sympathy for Gaddafi or take any of his claims seriously, and the attempt of showing Gaddafi in a bad light quickly spread through the western mainstream media and Gaddafi had become hated in the western world. But the trigging factor is that, contrary to popular belief which had been transmitted by so many people, like Barack Obama, Libya under Muammar Gaddafi, whom was often portrayed as “tyrant” and “dictator” was in fact, Africa’s most prosperous democracy-according to the United Nations Development Index, prior to the U.S.-led intervention in 2011; according to the same index(see fig6), Libya had the highest GDP per capta, the lowest infant mortality and the highest life expectancy in all of Africa(see

Article 101 of UNCLOS should be read in conjunction with article 58(2), which provides that "articles 88 to 115 and other pertinent rules of international law apply to the exclusive economic zone in so far as they are not incompatible with this Part."

In this article she wrote about how the “C.I.A. was involved in the smuggling of weapons between Libya and Turkey. She also stated that many of the weapons smuggled into Libya were directly linked to the Benghazi attacks” (Picket 1). But why start smuggling into an unstable country in the first place? It can be linked to the rise of Qaddafi in Libya. When he came to power the Libyan Militias needed help to remove him from power and since it played into the United States plans in the middle east, it only a matter of time before the U.S pitched in. When Qaddafi fell weapons were still floating around the country, falling into the hands of the C.I.A, which in turn was sending them to other groups that were “friendly” during Qaddafi’s overthrow. So trying to help Libya also helped their militant groups gain power and when regular people gain any kind of power it all goes to their heads, clouding their sense of right and

The United States has troops stationed in Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Turkey, and is currently fighting two wars. Another war is not what this country needs. Within the past few weeks, the United States has taken serious military action in Libya. The goal of the United States is to free the Libyan citizens from the tyrannical rule of Moammar Gadhafi. The United States has taken such actions as imposing a no-fly zone over the Libyan air-fields and removing Libya from the Human Rights Counsel, but recently the United States began firing missiles at Libyan tanks and other military weapons. Did the United States go too far this time? Experts of United States’ Foreign Policy feel that President Obama’s actions, or what is being called the

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“Foreign policy determines how America conducts relations with other countries. It is designed to further certain goals. It seeks to assure America’s security and defense. It seeks the power to protect and project America’s national interests around the world. National interest shapes foreign policy and covers a wide range of political, economic, military, ideological, and humanitarian concerns. (Costly)” When analyzing the concept of what foreign policy is, it becomes apparent that one of the main theoretical purposes of it, is to protect American interests and homeland sustainability, through interacting with other countries. Undoubtedly, one of Americas greatest interests are economic stability, and in today’s society, every nation is economically interdependent on one another through trade. In several recent

More possible evidence is that an American airman said that the Libyan planes were “armed and aggressively heading toward them” (World Book 2001 Edition L, 268). According to Stanik “only four put their bombs directly on or very near their aim points” (Martin, http://news.bbc.co.uk). One place that was severely hit during the bombing was the French Embassy, damage included blown out windows, and 5 or 6 houses in that area were damaged too (Weinraud, http://www.nytimes.com). Also during the bombing, some of Qaddafi’s relatives were terribly wounded, “treacherous and barbaric” were the words used to describe their situation (Weinraud, http://www.nytimes.com). Talking about the navy planes that were sent out, Mr. Weinberger said “All of the Navy planes have returned without casualty” (Weinraud,

against "a foreign state, an agency of a foreign state, or an officer or employee

SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market oriented than a country's typical or national laws. "Nationwide" laws may be suspended inside a special economic zone.