The United States and the Arab Spring: The Dynamics of Political Engineering

Notes

1. The statement is available at: http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=CF34DE54-D3B5-651D-C3EE-505C71941FF2 (accessed September 25, 2012).

2. “Conversations on Diplomacy Moderated by Charlie Rose,” June 20, 2012, http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2012/06/193554.htm (accessed September 27, 2012).

3. A leaked US diplomatic cable from November 2009 written by the US ambassador to Libya, Gene Cretz, described Mr Jibril as a man who helped pave the way for the privatization of Libya's economy and welcomed American companies. “With a PhD in strategic planning from the University of Pittsburgh, Jibril is a serious interlocutor who gets the US perspective,” ambassador Cretz wrote. “Head of Libyan ‘think tank’ outlines human development strategy,” Telegraph, January 31, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/libya-wikileaks/8294558/HEAD-OF-LIBYAN-THINK-TANK-OUTLINES-HUMAN-DEVELOPMENT-STRATEGY.html (accessed October 5, 2012).

4. “Taking Charge of Libya's Rebels: An In-Depth Portrait of Colonel Khalifa Haftar,” The Jamestown Foundation 2:3 (March 31, 2011), http://mlm.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnewstt_news=37724&tx_ttnewsbackPid=567&no_cache=1 (accessed October 10, 2012).

5. See the text of UN Resolution 1973 at: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/sc10200.doc.htm (accessed September 10, 2012).