Marta Dassù
Marta Dassù is an essayist and expert on international relations born in Italy in 1956. She works at the Aspen Institute, where she directs the journal Aspenia. She was foreign policy adviser to the Italian government from 1998 to 2001 and directed the Center for International Policy (Cespi). She has worked for Corriere della Sera and Il Sole 24 Ore, and has written regularly for La Stampa since 2010.
The fall of Tripoli marks a victory for NATO and the EU countries that supported the war. But Europe, divided and weakened by the euro crisis, will have to find ways to manage the post-Gaddafi era without bringing chaos to its southern border. 
The initiative taken by France and the United Kingdom — two countries which occupy key posts in the European External Action Service — has fragmented the emerging structure of European diplomacy to the point where some commentators have remarked that the EU’s foreign policy should be directly entrusted to Paris and London.