NATO Intervention in Libya: A Humanitarian Success?

Western media and politicians typically praise NATO’s 2011 intervention in Libya as a humanitarian success for averting a bloodbath and helping replace the dictatorial regime of Muammar Qaddafi with a transitional council pledged to democracy. In this lecture, Prof. Alan J. Kuperman (Austin, USA) compares the actual outcome in Libya to the likely outcome without intervention, based on the best available documentary evidence.

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