Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa

Name: Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Military Intervention in the Middle East and North AfricaThe Case of NATO in Libya\nAuthor(s): Susannah O'Sullivan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032096476, 978-1032096476\nSynopsis\nThis book contributes to an increasingly important branch of critical security studies that combines insights from critical geopolitics and postcolonial critique by making an argument about the geographies of violence and their differential impact in contemporary security practices, including but not limited to military intervention. The book explores military intervention in Libya through the categories of space and time, to provide a robust ethico-political critique of the intervention. \n\nMuch of the mainstream international relations scholarship on humanitarian intervention frames the ethical, moral and legal debate over intervention in terms of a binary, between human rights and state sovereignty. In response, OSullivan ques.