Bangladesh, June 16 -- More than a decade has passed since the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafis regime, yet instead of blossoming into a stable democracy or even a functioning state, Libya has spiraled into a carefully engineered disaster. The countrys institutional framework has all but disintegrated, with key state responsibilities outsourced-or outright surrendered-to militias, criminal syndicates, and foreign actors. What remains is a hollow shell of sovereignty where violence is not a breakdown of order but a calculated mechanism of governance, and chaos is not a byproduct of failure but a feature of elite strategy.

Todays Libya is no longer a nation-state in any meaningful sense. It is a fragmented landscape of militia-r...