Following the questions raised about the discharge of the responsibility to protect by Gentian Zyberi in his recent post on the situation in Libya, and the remarks I previously made on the situation in Egypt and the responsibility of the international community, I would like to draw our readers’ attention to a revealing and insightful analysis conducted by two UCLA scholars in an opinion article on Al-Jazeera news. The authors, Bali and Abu-Rish, discuss the applicability of the responsibility to protect to the situation in Libya by examining the corollary rights of third states that decide to act upon these…