Libya — adrift in a fragmented worldHafed Al-GhwellPeople gather at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli to protest against the candidacy Seif Al-Islam Qaddafi to run in the country's December presidential polls. Libyans would be wise not to place all their hopes in an election highly touted by the international community as the panacea to a decade of ills. What is clear among the international community, however, is that ineffectual engagement on Libya will continue even if the elections fail to deliver the promised next phase of a stable, democratic transition. Libyans would be wise not to place all their hopes in an election highly touted by the international community as the panacea to a decade of ills. Foreign engagement itself in Libya remains ambiguous, divergent, and destructive, exacerbated by severely weakened global institutions in a fragmented world.

Source: Libya Today December 05, 2021 18:08 UTC