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  • 20 May 2011
    The costs of stalemate in Libya

    Whatever happens in Libya in the coming weeks, the dichotomy in western policy between armed intervention in one situation and lack of an adequate response elsewhere will continue, casting a shadow over humanitarian claims and undermining other proclaimed purposes, says Professor Paul Rogers. The damage and the lost opportunities produced will be measured for years to come. The west's military-political strategy prolongs the war in Libya and gives space to authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the region.

  • 8 Apr 2011
    A lesser evil? Libya and the ‘responsibility to protect’

    Is humanitarian military intervention correctly characterised 'lesser evil'? John Heathershaw considers five questions about the nature and the prospects of intervention in Libya. He asks poignantly where the responsibility is in the much-vaunted ‘responsibility to protect’?

  • 22 Mar 2011
    MP's give nervous backing to military action in Libya

    British parliamentarians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the government's military action in Iraq, but with many expressing serious misgivings.

  • 21 Mar 2011
    Christians, Libya and the cycle of violence

    "Is it ever right for Christians to support military action in places like Libya?" That was the question posed to me on Premier Christian Radio this morning, alongside the pragmatic issue of what is happening following the Western bombing raids and what the wider implications are.

  • 21 Mar 2011
    The alternative to Libya bombing is not inaction, say Germans

    The German government has responded robustly to critics who say that it should endorse the current US, UK and French bombing raids on Libya.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    Government refuses publicly to rule out ground troops in Libya

    The UK chancellor has pointedly refused to rule out British ground troops being sent to Libya, despite the clear position of UN Security Resolution 1973.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    Concern mounts over impact of Western action in Libya

    Global concern is growing over the military action taken by US, UK and French forces in Libya, both in terms of its short- and long-term impact.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    Bombing will not democratize Libya, warns thinktank

    The beliefs and values thinktank Ekklesia has warned that bombing Libya is unlikely to help the country move towards democracy and will increase the suffering of its people.

  • 20 Mar 2011
    Military action in Libya and 'liberal interventionism'

    The recent history of western military interventions in the Middle East is hardly encouraging. Yet British PM David Cameron has clearly been itching to begin the bombing in Libya, and US President Obama has also sanctioned armed action - in spite of serious warnings from advisers in and outside the White House.

  • 2 Mar 2008
    Worrying about 'moral' foreign policy

    Talk of 'moral' foreign policy has led to 'liberal interventionism', notes Giles Fraser. And along that path of good intention has lain disaster, as with some 'just war' thinking.