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This chapter lays out the contents of the book and describes the author’s main argument: that the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) the Libyan people from large-scale massacre was the driving force behind US intervention in the Libyan civil war. It also introduces R2P’s main characters, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Tang Abomo, P. (2019). Introduction. In: R2P and the US Intervention in Libya. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78831-9_1
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