For the last six years, the international community has tried a range of different approaches to mediating the Libyan civil war. All have failed. Most nations that are not actively fueling the war with flows of weapons, money, training, and mercenaries now see that...
For many decades now, the United Nations has had a whole host of critics on the global right. Over the last few years, the rise of populist, anti-globalization political movements in many major world powers — such as the UK, the U.S....
Largely overlooked in international policymaking toward Libya’s current conflict is the role of corruption as a key driver of violence, as opposed to merely its byproduct. The high-level debate on Libya at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in late September and the...
As Libya’s struggle for post-Qadhafi succession enters its ninth year, international peace-making efforts remain doomed, so long as they fail to address the root causes of the country’s malaise: flawed economic institutions and the lack of a social...
