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The EU, NATO and the Libya Conflict: Anatomy of a Failure book cover

1st Edition

The EU, NATO and the Libya Conflict Anatomy of a Failure

By Stefano Marcuzzi Copyright 2022
268 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the causes and implications of the Libyan crisis since the anti-Gaddafi uprisings of 2011 from the perspective of the EU and NATO. It asks the question of why those organizations failed to stabilize the country despite the serious challenges posed by the protracted crisis to European and transatlantic stakes in the region. This book argues that such failure originated in a... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Responsibility to Protect

1. The EU and NATO on the Eve of the Libyan War: Strategy and Institutions

2. Bloody Spring: The Libya Conflict of 2011

3. Intervention: Half-Hearted Hard Power

Part 2: Responsibility to Rebuild

4. The Years of Missed Opportunities: Soft Power to the Test, 2012–2014

5. Civil War and Proxy War: From Soft to Hard Security Crisis, 2014–2016

6. From State-Building to Containment: Eluding or Deputizing Hard Security Measures, 2017–2018

7. From a Proxy War to an Internationalized War: The Need for Hard Power, 2019 and Beyond

Conclusions and Heading Forward

Biography

Stefano Marcuzzi is Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland, Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe, Brussels, Belgium and Emerging Challenges Analyst at the NATO Defense College Foundation, Rome, Italy.

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