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By any definition, Libya is a so-called fragile state and a high-priority challenge for international security. Since 2011, it has been wracked by repeated cycles of internal division and proxy warfare.
The last time Russian forces tried to topple an internationally recognized government it was in a country far from Eastern Europe and on a far smaller scale than today’s war in Ukraine.
It’s about managing oil prices, bread prices, and strategic partnerships.
But one event is missing from these analyses, an episode that combines political and emotional aspects, and helped crystallize Putin’s distrust of the West, his own sense of vulnerability, and his ultimate decision to return as Russia’s president: the 2011 NATO-led intervention in Libya that resulted in the violent death of the country’s eccentric dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
In an interview, Dmitri Trenin discusses what Middle Eastern countries will be looking for in the Ukraine crisis.
Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Brett McGurk, the President’s point person on the Middle East to discuss these and other issues.
In an interview, Ruslan Trad describes how private military companies advance the Kremlin’s agenda in the Arab world.
Libya may be heading toward new rounds of conflict in the aftermath of its recently aborted elections.
In an interview, Tarek Mitri looks back at Libya’s volatile transition after the fall of the Qaddafi regime.
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