Vandewalle, an associate professor of government, says, “The responsibility for creating a peacekeeping force for Libya falls squarely on European states. Considering their longstanding economic and political interests in North Africa and their concerns over immigration, it is they, after all, that have the most to lose from Libya’s collapse. Libya is part of the European Union’s soft underbelly.”
Read the full opinion piece, published 11/11/14 by The New York Times.