Melcangi quoted in Agenzia Nova on Tunisia’s recent removal of Islam as the state religion

MENASource Sep 20, 2024

The end of Libya’s false stability period

By Karim Mezran

The international community must act rapidly and effectively to prevent an all-out war between the various Libyan militias and their foreign backers.
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Melcangi quoted in Agenzia Nova on Tunisia’s recent removal of Islam as the state religion

MENASource Sep 19, 2024

Egypt is cozying up to Somalia to thwart Ethiopia

By Shahira Amin

Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia have escalated after Cairo forged closer ties with Addis Ababa’s rival, Somalia.
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Melcangi quoted in Agenzia Nova on Tunisia’s recent removal of Islam as the state religion

MENASource Aug 30, 2024

Algeria has never seen a smooth transfer of power. It won’t in this election, either. 

By Andrew G. Farrand

A weak slate of alternative candidates and the near certainty of Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s victory will do little to inspire participation.
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Melcangi quoted in Agenzia Nova on Tunisia’s recent removal of Islam as the state religion

Report Jul 30, 2024

After 2011, the United States stayed on the sidelines—to Libya’s detriment

By Ben Fishman

When reflecting over the last decade of the US policy, especially in the Trump and Biden administrations, three consistent trends emerge: insufficient support for the UN political process to restore legitimacy to Libya’s political; leadership, repeated appeals to eastern warlord and head of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar to participate in a political process; and most consequentially for the United States, a seeming lack of attention to Russia’s increased presence in Libya.
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Melcangi quoted in Agenzia Nova on Tunisia’s recent removal of Islam as the state religion

Report Jul 30, 2024

After anti-migration efforts shrank its influence, Rome needs a new Libya policy

By Karim Mezran, Aldo Liga

It has been more than thirteen years since the outbreak of the 2011 Libyan revolution and the moment when Italy reluctantly supported the NATO-led intervention that imposed a no-fly zone over Libya purportedly to protect the population from Muammar Gaddafi’s retaliation.
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Melcangi quoted in Agenzia Nova on Tunisia’s recent removal of Islam as the state religion

Report Jul 30, 2024

The UN should take a bolder stance in Libya

By Álvaro de Argüelles

The two main armed conflicts of the last two years—in Gaza and Ukraine—have led to the belief that international politics are ruled again by sheer force and that the United Nations is no longer a relevant actor.
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Melcangi quoted in Agenzia Nova on Tunisia’s recent removal of Islam as the state religion

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Ashford publishes book Oil, the State and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates

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On June 1, Emma Ashford’s book Oil, the State and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates was published by Georgetown University Press. The book challenges prevailing understandings of the international implications of oil wealth and shows why it can create bad actors. In a world where oil-rich states are more likely to start war than their oil-dependent counterparts, […]

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Badi quoted in Al-Monitor on why Libya has responded to rising food prices with oil plant blockades

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Badi quoted in The New Arab on Russia’s deployment of Libya-based Wagner Group mercenaries to Ukraine

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Mezran and Melcangi in the Italian Journal of International Affairs: “Truly a Proxy War? Militias, Institutions, and External Actors in Libya between Limited Statehood and Rentier State”

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Farrand quoted in Sued Deutsche on changing views on French language in Algeria

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