Conclusion
In February – March 2011 world community is facing on strong challenge in Libya where rebels are fighting against Qaddafi’s regime and following different ideas and Col. Qaddafi tries to make “a bloodbath” for intractable citizens and former allies. Sure Libya is not in the center of international arena and not the key region of the world but Libya is the gate to and from the most difficult regions of Africa – sub-Saharan territories with permanent humanitarian disasters.
The members of the UN Security Council should try to localize Libyan challenge and make an effective decision of this for the regional and international security, stability and development.
Possibilities
Honorable representatives of the UN Security Council members have following possibilities in the solving of Libyan challenge:
1) The UNSC may sanction the international intervention in current Libyan affairs but such intervention can’t contradict the UN Charter. Also such intervention should be framed because of objective and political reasons.
2) The UNSC decision should contain measures which don’t require additional funding from the UN.
3) The UNSC can use the military sanctions if there will be effective executors and agreement from permanent UNSC members.
4) Qaddafi has lost his supporters and domestic legitimacy, so the reconstitution of Jamahiriya is impossible.
5) The main goal of potential intervention not the democracy but the localization of Libyan conflict.
6) Libyan revolt brings the domestic political risks for the Western politicians in the case of their abstention but the intervention will bring the risk of being bogged down in the civil war.
Additional Information
Benny Morris. The West, the Arabs, and the Real Qaddafi // The National Interest. February 28, 2011 – URL: http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-west-the-real-qaddafi-4947;
Frederic Wehrey. Libya's Terra Incognita: Who and What Will Follow Qaddafi? // Foreign Affairs. February 28, 2011 – URL: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67551/frederic-wehrey/libyas-terra-incognita;
Jacob Heilbrunn. Why Did Tony Blair Become A Pal of Col. Qaddafi's? // The National Interest. September 25, 2011 – URL: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/tony-blairs-closest-business-partner-col-gadaffi-5931;
Lybia // Foreign affairs – URL: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/taxonomy/term/4
Melodee M. Baines. Stability in a Post-Gaddafi Libya // Reliefweb/ February 1, 2012 – URL: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/reliefweb_pdf/node-473945.pdf;
Michael O'Hanlon. Winning Ugly in Libya: What the United States Should Learn From Its War in Kosovo // Foreign Affairs. March 30, 2011 – URL: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67684/michael-ohanlon/winning-ugly-in-libya;
Michael Semple. What Post-Qaddafi Libya Has to Learn From Afghanistan: How to Avoid Decades of War // Foreign Affairs. October 21, 2011 – URL: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/letters-from/what-post-qaddafi-libya-has-to-learn-from-afghanistan;
Mohamad Bazzi. The Death of the Qaddafi Generation. The Era of Arab Strongmen Comes to an End // Foreign Affairs. October 21, 2011 – URL: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136603/mohamad-bazzi/the-death-of-the-qaddafi-generation;
NATO’s New Problem: Post-Qaddafi Libya? // The National Interest. August 18, 2011 – URL: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/letters-from/what-post-qaddafi-libya-has-to-learn-from-afghanistan;
Ливия и Франция договорились об укреплении военного сотрудничества // РБК. 26.02.2012 – URL: http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/20120226075040.shtml;
Межплеменные столкновения на юго-востоке Ливии: десятки раненых // Вести. 28.02.2012 – URL: http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=727485&cid=9;
Роберт Скидельски. Парадоксы гуманитарной войны // Россия в глобальной политике. 19 апреля 2011 – URL: http://www.globalaffairs.ru/number/Paradoksy-gumanitarnoi-voiny-15178;
Рудольф Кимелли. Пресса под ружьем: Как современная журналистика помогает войнам // Россия в глобальной политике. 19 апреля 2011 – URL: http://www.globalaffairs.ru/number/Pressa-pod-ruzhem-15179;
Map 1: Africa (source: http://www.africa.org.ua/map/index.htm)
Map 2: Libya (source: http://www.ezilon.com/)
1 Frederic Wehrey. Libya's Terra Incognita: Who and What Will Follow Qaddafi? // Foreign Affairs. February 28, 2011.