The role of the EU in the Libyan conflict since 2011

NATO & its AdversariesThe Struggle for Global Leadership
Written By Stefano Marcuzzi

Stefano Marcuzzi’s publication ‘The role of the EU in the Libyan conflict since 2011’, for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Regional Program Political Dialogue South Mediterranean Libya Brief no. 11, examined the EU role in the Libyan conflict since 2011. Their role ‘has been characterized by an almost acritical faith in soft power, and in a strict adherence to the principles of UN political leadership and Libyan ownership. Unfortunately, soft power proved insufficient to stabilize Libya, the UN was too often paralyzed by veto-players, and the local ownership principle turned out to be a double-edged sword. Early EU failures magnified intra-EU divisions, making EU action even less consistent. This allowed external players to expand into Libya and ultimately overshadow the EU. The Union can invert the trend only by deciding to play a stronger political role’…

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Stefano Marcuzzi

Stefano Marcuzzi is the Project Area Lead of NATO & its Adversaries for NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder. An Oxford University DPhil in Military History, he has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe, Brussels, and a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University College Dublin (UCD) and an external fellow at Boston University (BU). Stefano is also an Emerging Challenges Analyst for the NATO Defense College Foundation.

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