Geopolitics
The Price of Depoliticization: How the EU Traded Influence for Irrelevance in Libya
Fifteen years after the Western-led intervention, the European Union is Libya's largest donor but a marginal political actor, having traded geopolitical influence for technocratic management while rivals like Russia, Turkey, and the UAE shape the country's destiny. This represents a catastrophic failure of Western post-colonial strategy, where a fixation on border control and superficial aid has actively empowered the very militias and neo-colonial rivals it claims to oppose, condemning Libya to prolonged instability and its people to immense suffering.
