Humanitarian Intervention: Analyzing USA’s Interest Through Military Intervention During the Libyan Civil War (2011)

Abstract

The first Libyan Civil War (2011) was a revolutionary movement influenced by the Arab Spring. From a non-violent series of protest, the event somehow revolved into an armed conflict between a group of anti-Qaddafi’s and the pro-Qaddafi’s. Already worsened by vicious military forces under Qaddafi’s command, the turmoil ensued and instantly turned more hostile as international interventions meddled in such as the United States and its allies. United States deployed military forces assists during the conflict namely Operation Odyssey Dawn and Operation Unified Protection with the main goal to save the non combat civilians from the war zone. Using literary review as the method by compilling older readings in order to collect information regarding the the topic, this article attempts to analyze what could possibly be USA’s genuine intention as they were notorious for interfering in another state’s conflict just to fulfill their national interest and how such action of intervention were justifiedThabk you. The said interests concluded as follow: (1) to monopoly Libya’s oil and gas by changing the system, maintaining the price, and to open an oil market; (2) to spread their democracy agenda by encouraging the change in the government system; (3) to imprint their hegemony in Libya and Middle East as a whole.