1st Edition
Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa The Case of NATO in Libya
Introduction: Libya’s ‘model intervention’
- Humanitarian Intervention and R2P in Critical Perspective
- Space, time and insecurity: Challenge hegemonic liberal space-time
- Their History, Our Speed: Precision and Speed in Virtuous War in Libya
- Bombs, Torture and Migrants: The Colonial Present in Libya
- Geographies of the uprising: rag-tag rebels and military deficiencies
- Voices of Resistance
From Humanitarian Intervention to R2P
The critique of intervention and R2P: a view from where?
Outlining a critical spatio-temporal methodology
Challenging progressive liberal time
The need for speed in military intervention
Humanitarianism from a great height: grey battle lines in the virtuous war
Colonial entanglements and the making of the Libyan state
A two-dimensional ‘Gaddafi’s Libya’ and multidimensional geographies of violence
Coming in from the cold: Arms, torture and migration in the deal with Gaddafi
Imaginative geographies of the Libya conflict
‘Rag-tag rebels’: juvenility, fear and threat
Libya’s political space post-Gaddafi
Coda: Contestation and disorder
Voices of the uprising, rebuilding the state
Conclusion: When a war is not a war, and resisting humanitarian intervention
Biography
Susannah O’Sullivan teaches International Relations at the University of Bristol and University of Leicester, UK. She received her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2015.
