When Does America Care About Human Rights? The Obama Administration’s Responses to Humanitarian Violations in Libya and Syria

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Brief Overview

This research aids in understanding the empirical puzzle of why the United States intervened in Libya to protect civilians from humanitarian violations but refrained from intervening in Syria, whose population suffered parallel human rights abuses.

Author

• Mariam Hibah Khayata, Rhodes College