Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1 Introduction; References; Chapter 2 The Responsibility to Protect: The History of a Growing Norm; Centuries of Impunity; ICISS: A New Understanding of Sovereignty; Just Cause; Right Intention; Proportional Means; Last Resort; Reasonable Prospects; Right Authority; The Reaction; R2P: A New Understanding of Security; The Content of R2P; The Responsibility to Prevent; The Responsibility to React; The Responsibility to Rebuild; The Adoption of R2P; The Scope and Enforcement; References; Chapter 3 Theory and Methods
Chapter 4 US Foreign Policy in the Context of Humanitarian InterventionRwanda; Kosovo; Afghanistan; Iraq; Darfur; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Historical Context of US-Libyan Relations (Prior to 2011); The Period Before the Second World War; The Cold War Period; Between 1951 and 1969; Qaddafi and the New Revolutionary Ideology; US Foreign Policy Toward Libya Under Qaddafi; From 1969 to 1976; The Carter Administration (1977-1981); The Reagan Administration (1981-1989); The Period Between the End of the Cold War and the 9/11 Attacks; The First Bush Administration (1989-1993)
Preventive Military Deployment or Gunboat DiplomacyPublic Condemnation in International Forums (Naming and Shaming); Qaddafi's Continued Defiance; US Administration Internal Debate; The Turning Point: National Intelligence Director James Clapper's Assessment; Loyalist Forces' Counteroffensive; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7 R2P Norm of "Reaction" in US Foreign Policy Toward the Libyan Civil War; R2P and the Decision to Intervene; US Decision to Intervene and the Role of the "Dream Team"; The International Coalition; The UN Security Council Debate; The Military Coalition
Role of Constructivism in Formulating an Alternative ExplanationThe Constructivist Challenge; Ideas and Material Capabilities; Collective Meanings and Identities; Norms, Shared Values, and the Use of Force; Between the Logic of Appropriateness and the Logic of Consequences; The Agent-Structure Problem; Norms and Strategic Behavior; Method and Sources; Methods; Operationalizing R2P; The Responsibility to Prevent (ICISS 2001, 24-29, 31); The Responsibility to React (ICISS 2001, 30-33); The Responsibility to Rebuild (ICISS 2001, 39-43); Sources; References
The Clinton Administration (1993-2001)After 9/11; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 R2P Norm of "Prevention" in US Foreign Policy Toward the Libyan Civil War; The Uprising; Death Casualties; Libyan Regime Genocide Rhetoric; Condemnations and Defections; The First US Reaction; Political Threats; Preventive Diplomacy; Withdrawal of Diplomatic Recognition; Assets Freezing and Targeted Economic Sanctions; Arms Embargo and Travel Bans for Influential Individuals; Threat of International Criminal Prosecution; Expulsion from International Organizations