Human Security Centre Human Rights and International Security Research
Team Leader: Michelle McKenna – Senior Fellow
Our research on global governance maintains a strong legal perspective in analysing major issues in international law, intergovernmental institutions and the International Criminal Court.
Why Libya Surprised Us, and Why Syria Won’t
Who could have foreseen that Libya, within just one year of Muammar Gaddafi’s death, would join the community of democratic nations? Virtually everyone predicted that the Islamist tide would sweep through Tripoli as it had done through Tunis and Cairo. But it was not to be. Instead, the Libyan people made fools of us all.
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