Foreign Affairs Report: Libya in Crisis
Foreign Affairs Report: Libya in Crisis
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Qaddafi's Spawn: What the Dictator's Demise Unleashed in the Middle East Yahia H. Zoubir July 24, 2012 The Libyan leader's ouster dispersed masses of guns and refugees across the region. Already, Algeria has seen attacks by AQIM militants armed with Libyan weapons, Mali has been rocked by a coup led by armed nomads returning from Libya, Niger is struggling to cope with waves of refugees from Libya and Mali, and Tunisia's economy has been shattered by the loss of its most important trading partner. |
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Libya's Militia Menace: The Challenge After the Elections Frederic Wehrey July 15, 2012 Libya's elections passed peacefully, but observers should have no illusions about the momentous challenges ahead, especially the task of rebuilding and formalizing the country’s security services. During its 16 months in power, the outgoing transitional government walked a fine line between trying to dismantle the country's regional militias and making use of them as hired guns. The strategy sowed the seeds for the country’s descent into warlordism. |
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NATO's Victory in Libya: The Right Way to Run an Intervention Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis Mar/Apr 2012 NATO’s operation in Libya has rightly been praised for saving lives and ending a tyrannical regime, write the U.S. permanent representative to NATO and its supreme allied commander for Europe. But to replicate the success, member states must reinforce their political cohesion and improve the burden sharing that made the mission work. |
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The Arab Spring at One: A Year of Living Dangerously |
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Let Tripoli Try Saif al-Islam: Why the Qaddafi Trial is the Wrong Case for the ICC Timothy William Waters December 9, 2011 Ever since Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi was captured last month by Libyan rebel fighters, the International Criminal Court has hoped to try him in The Hague. But the Libyan people bore the brunt of the Qaddafi regime's tyranny for nearly half a century, and it is to them that Saif al-Islam should answer. |
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What Post-Qaddafi Libya Has to Learn From Afghanistan: How to Avoid Decades of War Michael Semple October 21, 2011 Arriving in Tripoli just after it fell to the rebels, the author witnessed several similarities between the Libyan capital in 2011 and revolutionary Afghanistan in 1992. They offer valuable lessons on how to avoid catastrophe. |
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The Death of the Qaddafi Generation: The Era of Arab Strongmen Comes to an End Mohamad Bazzi October 21, 2011 Unfortunately for him and for Libya, Muammar al-Qaddafi betrayed his own revolution, just as the other Arab strongmen of his generation had. His death marks the end of the rule of these old-style nationalist leaders. |
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What Post-Qaddafi Libya Has to Learn From Afghanistan: How to Avoid Decades of War Michael Semple October 21, 2011 Arriving in Tripoli just after it fell to the rebels, the author witnessed several similarities between the Libyan capital in 2011 and revolutionary Afghanistan in 1992. They offer valuable lessons on how to avoid catastrophe. |
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Behind Qatar's Intervention In Libya: Why Was Doha Such A Strong Supporter of The Rebels? David Roberts September 28, 2011 Although Qatar has been an active player in the Middle East for some time, its intervention in Libya represented a dramatic break with its behind-the-scenes diplomacy of the past. Qatar hopes to turn its aid to the Libyan rebels into a role as an invaluable go-between for Western countries looking to engage post-Qaddafi Libya. |
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The Libyan Oil Tap: How to Get the Country's Production Back Online Edward L. Morse and Eric G. Lee September 6, 2011 Bringing Libyan crude oil back to market will ease world prices and provide much-needed funding for Libya's new government. But getting the pumps flowing again will not be easy. |
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The Libyan Rebels and Electoral Democracy: Why Rushing to the Polls Could Reignite Civil War Dawn Brancati and Jack L. Snyder September 2, 2011 Elections held too soon after a civil war often end in violence. The UN and the NTC should defer their plans until the rebel factions have disarmed and Libya has developed a civil society and modern political institutions. |
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Libya and the Obama Doctrine: How the United States Won Ugly Michael O'Hanlon August 31, 2011 The U.S. campaign was a success but a provisional and limited one. Qaddafi is gone, but his ouster will not become a model for future interventions. |
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Libya and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention: How Qaddafi's Fall Vindicated Obama and RtoP |
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Libyan Nation Building After Qaddafi: Helping the Rebels Help Themselves James Dobbins and Frederic Wehrey August 23, 2011 With Qaddafi's ouster imminent, the West must plan for post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction. |
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Rebel Rivalries in Libya: Division and Disorder Undermine Libya's Opposition |
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NATO After Libya: The Atlantic Alliance in Austere Times Anders Fogh Rasmussen July/August 2011 NATO's success in Libya shows how important and effective the alliance remains, writes its secretary-general. But with Europe rocked by the economic crisis and slashing military budgets, future missions will be imperiled unless NATO members get smarter about what and how they spend. |
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What Qaddafi Said: Excerpts from Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qaddafi's Last Televised Address The Editors June 4, 2011 As NATO intensifies its campaign in Libya, read a translation of Qaddafi's most important televised address. From the new Foreign Affairs/CFR eBook, The New Arab Revolt. |
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Wanted: Qaddafi & Co.: Can the ICC Arrest the Libya Three? David Kaye May 19, 2011 The International Criminal Court took a risk in issuing arrest warrants for Muammar al-Qaddafi and other Libyan officials: it remains unclear whether the warrants will ever be enforced and, beyond that, what effect they will have on the conflict in Libya. |
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AFRICOM's Libyan Expedition: How War Will Change the Command's Role on the Continent Jonathan Stevenson May 9, 2011 Operation Odyssey Dawn will make life even harder for the U.S. Africa Command. |
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Rebels With a Cause: The History of Rebel Governance, From the U.S. Civil War to Libya |
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Winning Ugly in Libya: What the United States Should Learn From Its War in Kosovo |
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The Iraq Syndrome Revisted: U.S. Intervention, From Kosovo to Libya |
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Flight of the Valkyries? What Gender Does and Doesn’t Tell Us About Operation Odyssey Dawn |
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The Mythology of Intervention: Debating the Lessons of History in Libya |
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A New Lease on Life for Humanitarianism: How Operation Odyssey Dawn Will Revive the Responsibility to Protect |
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To the Shores of Tripoli: Why Operation Odyssey Dawn Should Not Stop At Benghazi |
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The Folly of Protection: Is Intervention Against Qaddafi’s Regime Legal and Legitimate? |
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The Delusion of Impartial Intervention |
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What Intervention Looks Like: How the West Can Aid the Libyan Rebels |
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Libya's Terra Incognita: Who and What Will Follow Qaddafi? |
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The Rogue Who Came in From the Cold Ray Takeyh May/June 2001 The recent trial of two Libyans for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, raises a vexing problem for U.S. policymakers: What should Washington do when American containment policy starts to pay off and a "rogue" state starts to reform? After years of international isolation, Colonel Mu'ammar Qaddafi is ending his belligerence and starting to meet many of the demands placed on him by Washington and its allies. Now President Bush must figure out how to keep the pressure on while recognizing Libya's progress and helping reintegrate it into the world community. |
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The Colonel in His Labyrinth Milton Viorst March/April 1999 A Western journalist travels to Libya for an exclusive interview with Colonel Mu'ammar Qaddafi and finds a country struggling to modernize. Tired of suffering under the U.N. embargo, Libya may be ready to hand the suspected Lockerbie bombers over for trial. After being pariahs for over a decade, most Libyans seem eager to reenter the international community. But power in their country is divided between bureaucrats who favor the West and the old, fiercely anticolonial revolutionaries who still cherish Qaddafi's defiance. The bureaucrats are ready to put Libya's rotten image behind them, but the colonel is leery. |
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The United States and Libya Edward Schumacher Winter 1986/87 US policy towards Libya has confused the aim of stopping Libyan-inspired terrorism with that of overthrowing Gaddafi, and is based on a false picture of the domestic situation in Libya. Describes the economic status of Libya and its political organization. The regime should be left to its own 'self-destruction'. |