The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention in Libya

Ethics and International Affairs 25 (3):271-277 (2011)
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The moral permissibility of the intervention in Libya largely turns on two fairly tricky assessments: whether the situation was sufficiently serious at the time the intervention was launched and what the predominant purposes of the intervention were.

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10.1017/s0892679411000256

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