Published on the The Great Debate blog of Reuters on 24 January 2012. After months of uncertainty around whether Ali Abdullah Saleh has been sincere about stepping down from his post as Yemen’s president, Sunday brought confirmation that he has left the country to...
Published on e-IR on 23 October 2011. After more than 25,000 sorties and close to 10,000 airstrikes over the past six months, NATO is expecting to wind down its Libya operation by the end of October. As Steve Saideman has pointed out, this marks the fourth success of...
Published on the The Great Debate blog of Reuters on 20 October 2011. The fall of Sirte and the death of Colonel Gadhafi represent most likely the finishing blow for the remnants of the old regime in Libya. They are a highly valuable prize that the NTC fought hard to...
Published on the blog of the International Network for Economics and Conflict of the United States Institute of Peace on 6 September 2011. As the agenda in Libya now decisively shifts to thinking about, different scenarios paint variously optimistic and pessimistic...
Published by Bloomberg on 6 September 2011 By Chris Stephen and Caroline Alexander – Sep 6, 2011 11:53 AM GMT Muhsen al-Gubbi, a 30-year-old Libyan fighter from the western city of Misrata, refuses to watch the New Libya Television station set up after he...
Published in Qantara on 2 September 2011. There are many pitfalls ahead for post-Gaddafi Libya – but there are also many reasons to be optimistic about the success of post-conflict reconstruction, says Stefan Wolff in his assessment of the country’s...
