| ID | 107098 |
| Title Proper | Case of Libya and the state sovereignty problem |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kuznechevsky, V |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | CONCERNED WITH THE FLARE-UPS of popular revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East in March and April and the events in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, in the first place, the world community turned its gaze at the United Nations and its role in conflict settlement. The public and the UNSC tried to outline the limits beyond which no international interference in domestic policies was acceptable. In short, the world community wanted to know how state sovereignties could be preserved in the contemporary world; in fact, the future of the Westphalian principles is at stake. The Libyan crisis was unfolding to the accompaniment of the media deliberations, in Russia and the West, that the Westphalian principles should be abandoned. Nikolai Zlobin, a Russian migr living in the United States, Director of Russian and Asian Programs at the Washington-based World Security Institute, published in Rossiiskaia gazeta, the newspaper of the RF government, a long article called "Konets suverenitetov" (The End of Sovereignties). He has come close to admitting that the international law based on the Westphalian principles is a thing of the past. "The tragedy in Japan or, for example, in Libya has shown that the national sovereignty cannot be protected any longer," he writes. In the 21st century, he goes on to say, "the priority of national sovereignty per se vs. the world community's basic interests can no longer be preserved; the same applies to the principle of non-interference in domestic affairs and inadmissibility of ensuring safety of a country, region or people by external forces; otherwise the world community will have to pay dearly. At least this is how I see it from Washington. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 57, No. 4; 2011: p.48-55 |
| Journal Source | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 57, No. 4; 2011: p.48-55 |
| Key Words | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ; National State Sovereignty ; Westphalian System ; Libyan Case ; UNSC ; Libya |