Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with US Secretary of State John Kerry and other European foreign ministers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, at the start of international talks aimed at finding a way to break the political stalemate in Libya.Yui Mok PA Wire/PA Images. All rights reserved.
Unlike what some politicians may think, the Libyan revolution of February 2011 did not produce a fledgling democracy; it only opened the way for a few democratic steps, which were quickly overridden by political fragmentation and polarization, ineffective state institutions, and violence.
The United Nations-brokered Libyan Political Agreement (PA), which was signed last December after more than a year of dialogue between different Libyan rivals and factions was intended to reverse this course. However, it has failed to bear any fruits thus far because it does not address the root causes of the Libyan crisis and only adds to its complexity.
