Professor Alex de Waal, Tufts University, USADr Eric Heinze, University of Oklahoma, USAProfessor Tom Keating, University of Alberta, CanadaProfessor Alan Kuperman, University of Texas at Austin, USAProfessor Kim Richard Nossal, Queen's University, CanadaDr Theresa Reinold, Social Science Research Centre Berlin, GermanyDr Brent Steele, University of Kansas, USA

"The Libyan intervention has been greeted as demonstrating the arrival of R2P. This excellent collection critically dissects these claims. Recommended for all those interested in the shifting debates concerning international intervention, law, ethics and humanitarian action." - David Chandler, University of Westminster, UK "This collection's incisive, critical analyses will set the terms of the debate over the 2011 Libya intervention, as well as shine much-needed light on the politics and future of the 'Responsibility to Protect' in Africa and around the world." - Adam Branch, San Diego State University, USA

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables 1. Introduction: Libya and the Responsibility to Protect; Aidan Hehir 2. Humanitarianism, Responsibility or Rationality? Evaluating Intervention as State Strategy; Robert W. Murray 3. The Responsibility to Protect as the Apotheosis of Liberal Teleology; Aidan Hehir 4. 'My Fears, Alas, Were Not Unfounded:' Africa's Responses to the Libya Conflict; Alex de Waal 5. Africa's Emerging Regional Security Culture and the Intervention in Libya; Theresa Reinold 6. The Use – and Misuse – of R2P: the Case of Canada; Kim Richard Nossal 7. The (D)evolution of a Norm: R2P, the Bosnia Generation and Humanitarian Intervention in Libya; Eric A. Heinze and Brent J. Steele 8. The UN Security Council on Libya: Legitimation or Dissimulation?; Tom Keating 9. NATO's Intervention in Libya: A Humanitarian Success?; Alan Kuperman 10. Conclusion: The Responsibility to Protect after Libya; Robert W. Murray