... emerging understanding between Moscow and Ankara.
Nevertheless, in many, if not most areas, interests between the two countries continued to contradict and conflict, most notably with regard to the fate of Idlib and northeastern Syria and the situation in Libya. This complex maze of coinciding and contradicting interests was governed by unspoken ground rules between the two sides, in order to avoid another entanglement on the scale of the
Sukhoi
shootdown. One of those rules was Ankara’s unconditional ...
... Zayed’s (MBZ) recent visit to Ankara came after a long period of frozen relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). For years, the two have held different positions on several regional and international developments including the 2013 Egypt events, the Libya crisis and the tensions in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Both sides, however, are aware of the fact that there is no direct problem between them, apart from disputes relating to third parties.A few months ago, the Turkish and Emirati ...
The meeting was organized by the New York Office to the United Nations and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
On October 14, 2021, an online seminar dedicated to the situation in Libya was held. The meeting was organized by the New York Office to the United Nations and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the presence of foreign security actors in Libya and their impact on national and regional stability....
... replaced the shackles of the socialist ideology of the past with the potent weapon of traditional values feels itself capable of not only participating in this change but also of driving it
There are several myths about Soviet/Russian involvement in Libya in particular and the Mediterranean in general. Unfortunately, such “political stories” are firmly rooted in the traditions of the Cold War and the post-Soviet period of geopolitical fog.
The first myth perpetuated in all the analytical efforts ...
On July 15, 2021, an online seminar dedicated to the Berlin II Conference on Libya was held
On July 15, 2021, an online seminar dedicated to the Berlin II Conference on Libya was held. The meeting was organized by the New York Office to the United Nations and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. Among the speakers of the seminar were Christian ...
... be read separately, it is recommended that they are reviewed together in order to obtain a better understanding of everything.
Andrew Korybko:
The Geostrategic Challenges of Russia’s “Ummah Pivot”
Russian Interests
North Africa: Becoming the Libyan Power Broker
In North Africa, Libya is the scene of intense competition between Turkey on the one hand and Russia, Egypt, the UAE, and France on the other. Russia must therefore seek a compromise solution that prevents either side from becoming ...
... segues into a series of observations about their overlapping and contradictory interests, which in turn enables one to better formulate Russia’s policy towards them individually and multilaterally.
Ivan Bocharov:
Prospects for a Settlement of the Libyan Conflict: Three Scenarios of the Mid-Term Forecast
Upon reaching that point, the second part of this article will go on to elaborate on Russia’s desired vision for those countries and the processes that they are participating in before talking ...
On June 16, 2021, the International Crisis Group (ICG) held an online discussion on the situation in Libya ten years after the outbreak of the civil war in that country
On June 16, 2021, the International Crisis Group (ICG) held an online discussion on the situation in Libya ten years after the outbreak of the civil war in that country.
The discussion ...
Should the next plan for a political settlement of the conflict fail, Libya risks becoming another Afghanistan, close to Europe
More than ten years ago, in February 2011, the Arab Spring began in Libya. The armed uprising quickly escalated into an armed conflict that had Muammar Gaddafi overthrown. Since then, the civil ...
The participants of the seminar discussed issues of political settlement of the Libyan conflict and security problems
On April 1, 2020, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) organized a closed online seminar on the Russian perspective on the Libyan crisis. The participants of the seminar discussed issues of political ...