Libya: Section 3 - Analysis

摘要

Overview: Security Environment. The Libyan security environment has taken a series of dramatic shifts in recent years. Although Col. Muammar al-Qadhafi had earlier broken with the policies previously responsible for characterizing it as a pariah nation, his response to the 2011 uprising once again isolated him from the international community. Between 2003 and 2004, Libya effectively renounced its role as a state sponsor of terrorism, came to a conciliatory agreement with the U.N. over previous terrorism-sponsored actions, and agreed to dismantle its long-standing program for the development of weapons of mass destruction. In the course of pursuing these actions, which were in part promoted by the U.S., EU, and U.N., Libya was effectively taking steps to remove the obstacles to its reintegration into the international community. Western governments and the U.N. employed their own initiatives to facilitate Libya's ability to rejoin the international community; the U.S., EU, and U.N. all lifted two-decades-long economic and trade sanctions, with the EU and U.N. both lifting the arms embargoes they had imposed on Libya.