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Nato Success In Libya, Rasmussen, who travelled to Tripoli, spoke to Al Jazeera about NATO’s NATO's intervention in Libya, justified by RtoP, resulted in global insecurity and weakened international consensus. permanent representative to NATO and its supreme allied commander for Europe. Resultantly, many in the West Read More. Primary and secondary data sources were used to collect data. On 19 March 2011, a NATO -led coalition began a military intervention into the ongoing Libyan Civil War to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (UNSCR 1973). This study starts by reciting the commonly accepted Western narra-tive of the 2011 conflict and intervention in Libya. INTRODUCTION The 2011 intervention against Libya by NATO is the most recent operation that the alliance has conducted where the majority of the alliance came together to conduct offensive operations against an adversary. With Gaddafi dead and its “military job now done,” NATO has declared its campaign in Libya one of the “most successful in NATO history. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, has hailed the end of the alliance’s military intervention in Libya. The Libyan intervention exposed flaws in the RtoP framework and its application by NATO and the UN. The war in Libya raises the question of whether European members of NATO will ever decide to embark on such a mission again. N. A success could help to establish R2P as an international norm whereas a failure could result in its end. In response, the United Nations Security Council (UNSCR) adopted Resolution 1970 on 26 February 2011, which expressed Using novel data on the 2011 civil war and NATO intervention in Libya, I conduct a quantitative within-case study in order to assess how Operation Unified Protector affected the Libyan govern-ment s ability to defend and capture towns and villages from the National Transitional Council ’ (NTC) rebel coalition. 6 Kuperman, Alan J. NATO's success in Libya shows how important and effective the alliance remains, writes its secretary-general. The UN Security Council passed the resolution with ten votes in favour and five abstentions, with the stated intent to have "an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians NATO’s intervention in Libya has raised much con-troversy and been subject to opposite assessments. It begins with a brief background to the crisis that emerged in Libya in the wake of the Arab Spring. Stavridis hailed the 2011 Libya campaign as a ‘model intervention’. Next, it documents two significant flaws in that narrative’s qualitative portrayal: the nature of violence prior to NATO’s intervention, and the eventual objective of NATO’s intervention. From Gordon Robison, Gulf News: [T]he haste with which Nato leaders moved to announce their exit from Libya effective Monday, bordered on the unseemly, especially since the NTC itself was publicly calling on Nato to stay on until the end of the year and expand its mission to include securing the country’s borders. But with Europe rocked by the economic crisis and slashing military budgets, future missions will be imperiled unless NATO members get smarter about what and how they spend. 12 “NATO’s Intervention in Libya Deemed a Success,” NPR, October 21, 2011. This article will examine NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011. I disagree with his assessment for four reasons: The UN-mandated intervention in Libya is now officially at an end. Libya granted oil exploration and production licences on Wednesday to several foreign energy companies, including giants Chevron and BP, for the first time since the fall of longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi. In February 2011, a peaceful protest in Benghazi in eastern Libya against the 42-year rule of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi met with violent repression, claiming the lives of dozens of protestors in a few days. springer. ” In contrast, the article noted that following Western intervention, Libya had come to stand out “as one of the most successful countries o emerge from the uprisings that have rocked the Arab wor Libya, the Responsibility to Protect and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention. But to replicate the success, member states must reinforce their political cohesion and improve the burden sharing that made the mission work. Daalder and James G. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks in Brussels on Sept. What does his death mean Today we have Ambassador Ivo Daalder, United States Permanent Representative to NATO, who will deliver a media roundtable on the success of NATO operations in Libya and the vital contributions of partners outside of NATO. In order to address the ways in which NATO’s post-9/11 evolution shaped its approach to the Libya campaign, and also the extent to which this oper-ation highlights both change and continuity in the alliance, this chapter is divided into the following sections.