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6 - Air power as police power II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

Mark Neocleous
Affiliation:
Brunel University, UK
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‘Postwar’ means Nothing.

What fools called ‘peace’ simply meant moving away from the front.

Fools defended peace by supporting the armed wing of money.

Wu Ming, 54 (2002)

What is a no-fly zone? Formally, a no-fly zone is a prohibition on flying in order to call a halt to hostilities in the region, usually enacted in aid of a group or groups which might otherwise suffer violence. When the Libyan civil war broke out in early 2011 one of the first demands made by several political actors of varying political persuasions was for a no-fly zone. The debate surrounding this continued until the passing of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, on 17 March 2011, imposing a no-fly zone over the country. This was one in a growing line of no-fly zones imposed for ‘humanitarian reasons’ by the ‘international community’. The ‘humanitarian reasons’ are important, since although within the Security Council the case was made by major military states such as the US, UK and France, the decision had wider support from those progressives and radicals who have insisted on an international ‘responsibility to protect’ or to intervene in support of democratic resistance movements. In having a ‘military’ and a ‘humanitarian’ rationale, the no-fly zone appears to be a form of geopolitical action with widespread appeal.

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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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