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- Title
THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND THE ARAB SPRING: LIBYA AS THE EXCEPTION, SYRIA AS THE NORM?
- Authors
GARWOOD-GOWERS, ANDREW
- Abstract
The article focuses on the history and development of the responsibility to protect (R2P) in context to the implications of the Arab Spring. It analyzes various challenges related to the intervention of Libya in 2011 and discusses the humanitarian crises in Syria. It informs that the norm Resolution 1973 was passed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in 2011 that was authorized with the power to protect civilians by the use of force in Libya.
- Subjects
HUMANITARIAN intervention; RESPONSIBILITY to protect (International law); INTERVENTION (International law); ARAB Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012; AGGRESSION (International law); UNITED Nations. Security Council
- Publication
University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 2, p594
- ISSN
0313-0096
- Publication type
Article