On 18 March, the National Council on U.S.-Libya Relations hosted a webinar on the occasion of the release of Stefano Marcuzzi’s new book “The EU, NATO and the Libya Conflict - Anatomy of a Failure” and the 11th anniversary of President Obama’s decision to commit the United States to the international intervention in Libya under UN Security Council Resolution 1973. The book explores the causes and implications of the Libyan crisis since the anti-Qaddafi 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 twofold problem common to both organizations: their prioritization of legitimacy over strategy, and their path dependence – the insufficient degree of adaptation to meet the different needs of the crisis.
Watch the webinar here.
More about Stefano’s book can be found here.