Humanitarian intervention in the geopolitical context

... no-fly zone to help protect civilians . From the very beginning, in all these cases, NATO forces were aiming at regime change, which was achieved. However, the humanitarian situation in Libya, Iraq, or Afghanistan became no better. The settlement of the Darfur conflict appears to be the only successful example of international intervention under humanitarian rhetoric to take place in the 2000s. Thus, these three large-scale international military operations failed to implement a single guideline set ...