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The Fallacies Of North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (Nato) Humanitarian Intervention And Regime Change In Libya, In 2011
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This study focused on four contending perspectives to controvert the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) claim of integrity in its humanitarian intervention in Libya. The problem, therefore, is that NATO disguised her national interest in the humanitarian intervention in Libya, and violated both R2P and nonintervention principle in the UN Charter, Article 2(7). The objective of the study is to show that intervention is motivated by quest for hegemony and power in pursuit of state’s national interests that are espoused in foreign policy. The study dwelt on secondary data and used content analysis for data presentation and discussion. Theory of political realism was used to explain state’s behavior in international relations and how power rivalry dominates the process. The findings show that NATO’s intervention in Libya was to dethrone Gaddafi and not humanitarian. Violence and human rights abuse in post-Gaddafi Libya bears this evidence out. It identified lack of integrity in the intervention and recommended compliance with R2P norm without bias.
