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Protection Racket
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- November 1, 2011
The Responsibility to Protect may indeed protect some civilians, but unfortunately it also facilitates atrocities against others. Writing last week about the end of NATO’s mission in Libya, Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock proclaimed it as ‘A victory for the Responsibility to Protect’. But according to a report issued this weekend by Human Rights Watch,
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NATO: Power and Principles in the Contemporary Era
- Analysis
- November 1, 2011
On Oct. 27, the United Nations Security Council voted to end international military operations in Libya as of November 1. For NATO, the completion of its mission in Libya represents a rare clear-cut victory. As Michael Clarke, director of the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, argued, NATO officials “can say unambiguously this
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La réussite de l’OTAN en Libye
- October 31, 2011
Cet article a originalement paru en anglais dans le blogue du Conseil International du Canada : opencanada.org. L’opération de l’Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord (OTAN) en Libye prend officiellement fin à minuit aujourd’hui. En fin de compte, ses aéronefs ont effectué quasiment 10 000 missions de frappe échelonnées sur sept mois. Lorsque la mission a débuté,
READ MORENATO’s Success in Libya
- Analysis
- October 31, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org. NATO’s operation in Libya formally ends at midnight today. All told, its aircraft conducted almost 10,000 strike missions over 7 months. When the mission began, many commentators warned that the intervention would result in a quagmire that might draw western forces into another endless,
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