Research & Publications: Libya

While political debate still roils over the legality of the American role in Libya, other questions have grown more pressing.

This essay discusses the growing number and diverse forms of regional and international cooperation on the environment that have taken place in the Maghreb in recent decades.

American policy toward conflict in Libya is bearing disappointing fruit.

It was absolutely predictable that Republicans would attack President Obama whatever he did in Libya, though Newt Gingrich, in his overeagerness, overreached by criticizing him for too explicitly opposite reasons.

Rahm Emanuel famously quipped that a crisis should never go to waste. In his absence, the Administration seems determined not to take sufficient advantage of the ongoing and huge crisis in the Arab world.

It now appears that the US finally has gotten serious about doing something meaningful to assist opposition forces in Libya.

The greatest threat to U.S. national security is Congress’s abdication of its constitutional responsibilities.

Relations between Libya and the U.S. have a turbulent history.