Featuring Emaddedin Badi, Mary Fitzgerald, Ben Fishman, and Steven Simon

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Libya: Prospects for Stability
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In the 12 years since a NATO airstrike led to Muammar Gadhafi’s death at the hands of rebel fighters, Libya has undergone civil war, a jihadist surge, division into substate entities ruled by rivals, and penetration by a congeries of outside powers eager for influence and control of Libya’s resources. These were clearly not the objectives of the massive Washington-centered intra-war planning process for post-conflict Libya.

How and why has this happened? What are the current political and economic conditions in Libya? What are the requirements for a stability that has thus far been elusive?

August 2023

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Emaddedin Badi

Emadeddin Badi is a nonresident senior fellow with the Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council, where he focuses primarily on U.S and European policies towards Libya and the wider geopolitical implications of the conflict. Previously, he was a nonresident scholar at the Counterterrorism and Extremism Program at the Middle East Institute

Mary Fitzgerald

Mary Fitzgerald is a researcher and consultant specializing in the Euro-Mediterranean region with a particular focus on Libya. She serves as a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. Mary has worked on Libya for more than a decade, focusing on Libya’s political transition, its energy sector, and the country’s Islamist currents.

Ben Fishman

Ben Fishman is a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and a member of the Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics. He is also an adjunct assistance professor for security studies at Georgetown University. From 2009 to 2013, he served on the National Security Council, where he held several posts, including director for Libya.

Steven Simon (Moderator)

Steven Simon is Senior Research Analyst at the Quincy Institute and the Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Centre for International Studies. From 2011 to 2012, he served on the National Security Council staff as senior director for Middle Eastern and North African affairs. His most recent book, Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, was published this spring.

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