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Breakdown of conflict prevention mechanism a major worry By James M Dorsey It’s a no-brainer to suggest that we live in an increasingly polarised world. Geopolitics are polarised, so are societies. Polarisation marks the transition from a unipolar world dominated by the United States to a bipolar world with China, or more likely a tripolar

From the blog of James M. Dorsey at The Times of Israel

It isn’t that no one cares about justice and human life, but that we have failed to confront the enemies of an ordered world

He was appointed prime minister in eastern Libya with a mandate to take over Tripoli.

There are fears the conflict could disrupt the precarious situation over the border.

We no longer inhabit the post-Cold War era. Our era of Global Enduring Disorder makes it particularly difficult for wealthy, geostrategically important post-conflict states to transition to stable governance as external and internal conflict actors pull them in a range of directions, making real reform or peacebuilding nearly impossible.

This paper investigates the ongoing Libya conflict through the Enduring Disorder paradigm, focusing on the financial and banking sectors, honing in on stakeholder perceptions of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), its transparency/opacity, and the “narrative wars” over who is to blame for, and who benefits from, Libya’s economic dysfunction, the lack of an annual budget, and the current lack of a quorum on the CBL board.

Ex-intelligence officer’s family say he was ‘kidnapped’ by militia before being secretly flown out of country

If you’ve been following the news, the world seems to have gone directly from a U.S.-led, international system to a pause in global order. On Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 6 p.m. at Vail Interfaith Chapel,...

NATO membership signifies expedience at the expense of a self-aggrandizing national myth that has become increasingly difficult to sustain.