title: Toppling Qaddafi: Libya and the Limits of Liberal Intervention
author:  Christopher S. Chivvis 
description: "Christopher Chivvis brilliantly dissects the 2011 intervention in Libya, providing a detailed account of Allied diplomacy and NATO military operations. Anyone thinking about future interventions should read this book." <br />James Goldgeier, Dean, School of International Service, American University<br /><br />"Christopher Chivvis provides a highly readable, insightful account of the Libyan intervention - its successes and limitations. As someone who participated in these events, I recognized much of the story told - and learned more new things than I'd imagined." <br />Ivo Daalder, former United States Ambassador to NATO<br /><br />"Christopher Chivvis makes an interesting case in Toppling Qaddafi that NATO's intervention in Libya had a "positive" outcome and that it should provide an "antidote to the sense of helplessness and cynicism about American power." Some readers may disagree with his conclusions, but not with the argument that this is an important and clarifying debate." <br />David Ignatius, columnist, The Washington Post<br /><br />"Toppling Qaddafi provides both a highly readable account of NATO's war in Libya and a carefully analytical basis for evaluating the relevance of this precedent for current and future conflicts." <br />James F. Dobbins, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation<br /><br />'Provides some important insights into behind-the-scenes machinations that led to the war.' Morning Star<br /><br />'The monograph's main merit is its empirical investigation. Chivvis worked at the US Department of Defense during the war in Libya and thus is in a position to provide a very detailed description of the entire military campaign, drawing not only on press releases and news outlets, but also on interviews with US and allied officers and officials. The result is a clear, masterfully written and insightful book that delivers important information, even to the informed reader.' Andrea Gilli, The International Spectator
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  The Economist 
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  The fighting between Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's forces and those rebelling against him moved to and fro along the 
  coast road between the oil town of Brega and Benghazi, the rebels' capital in the east. The Americans handed control of 
  the anti-Qaddafi coalition to NATO, which continued its assault on the Libyan government's ground forces from the air. 
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  More than 250 migrants were reported to have drowned after a boat that set off from Libya carrying 300-odd people, 
  mostly from Bangladesh, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan, sank on April 6th off the Italian island of 
  Lampedusa.  
  President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen struggled to stay in char