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dc.contributor.authorGlanville, Luke
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:23:00Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:23:00Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-06-05T03:11:30Z
dc.identifier.issn18759858
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/1875984X-00503006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/59885
dc.description.abstractIt is increasingly well understood that concepts of 'humanitarian intervention' and the 'responsibility to protect' enjoy a long and rich history. Nevertheless, it is surprising how plainly the arguments offered by states seeking to justify intervention in Libya in 2011 echo those used by theologians, jurists, and philosophers to justify intervention in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Those advocating intervention in Libya drew not just on the language of 'human rights,' that emerged relatively recently, but on a wider and much older range of idioms and ideas to make their case. In this article, I identify three key arguments that were employed by states in support of the intervention and I demonstrate their parallels with three principal arguments that have been advanced to justify intervention in response to tyranny since the sixteenth century. The three arguments are: the need to protect 'innocents'; the need to hold 'tyrants' to account; and the need to defend the will of a sovereign people. After exploring each argument, I conclude by noting that the claim often heard today, that intervention is under certain circumstances a responsibility rather than merely a right, also has deep roots in early modern thought.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMartinus Nijhoff
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom342
dc.relation.ispartofpageto361
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGlobal Responsibility to Protect
dc.relation.ispartofvolume5
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160699
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleGaddafi and Grotius: Some Historical Roots of the Libyan Intervention
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGlanville, Luke


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