LIBYA AND NATO’S OPERATIONS: THE RETURN FROM VOLUNTARISM TO THE CLASSICAL RULES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
LIBYA AND NATO’S OPERATIONS: THE RETURN FROM VOLUNTARISM TO THE CLASSICAL RULES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: The events in Libya erupted abruptly, along with the impact of the influence through crossborder contamination and osmosis of the changes given by the Arab revolutions from the neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt, which were expected to have an impact on the situation in this country. As a matter of fact, it has become a common place the assertion that if Hosni Mubarak has been unsceptered in Egypt, no other Arab leader can be sure of his position, in this Arab spring announced by the visit of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Middle East and the reunion in Doha, on 30 January 2011, when Mrs. Secretary of State announced that the system of the secular autocrats on Western money can no longer continue. It is far from our intention to formulate a conspiracy theory regarding the fall of the Arab regimes in a domino system, much less of passing a retractable America which is turned to its domestic issues, fully de-committed from its external responsibilities, the blame of the fall of the Arab regimes. Except that, then, Hillary Clinton announced the acknowledgements and the will of the United States of being no more the piggy-bank of the Arab nationalist, secular, authoritarian regimes, paying money for their arming, development aids – allocated without being able to compensate the corruption and the lack of economic and inclusive solutions for the population – so that subsequently again the United States to take over the costs of its association with these regimes and to be the target of the Islamist radicals, displeased with the isolation and the repercussions against political Islam in these societies.

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