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²⁰⁸ «The Other Arab Spring», Economist, August 11, 2012, http://www.economist.com/node/21560243?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_other_arab_spring; Vali Nasr, Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World (New York: Free Press, 2009); Christopher M. Schroeder, «The Middle East Could Be a Cradle of Innovation», Harvard Business Review, October 12, 2012; http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_middle_east_could_be_a cra.html; Wright, Rock the Casbah.

²⁰⁹ Michael Mandelbaum, Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government (New York: Public Affairs, 2007), pp. 91–92.

²¹⁰ «Hilary Clinton Deserves Credit for U. S. Role in Libya: View», Bloomberg View, September 7, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011—09–08/hillary-clinton-deserves-credit-for-the-positive-u-s-role-in-libyz-view.html.

²¹¹ Mann, The Obamians, p. 279.

²¹² William Arkin and Dana Priest, Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (Boston: Little, Brown, 2011).

²¹³ Sanger, Confront and Conceal, pp. 243—72.

²¹⁴ Peter Bergen, «Warrior in Chief», New York Times, April 29, 2012, p. SR1.

²¹⁵ David Rodhe, «The Obama Doctrine», Foreign Policy, March/April 2012, pp. 65–69.

²¹⁶ Greg Miller, «U.S. Set to Keep Kill Lists for Years», Washington Post, October 24, p. A1.

²¹⁷ Майкл О’Хэнлон считает, что администрации не хватает эффективной стратегии работы с недееспособными государствами. См.: «Obama’s Weak and Failing States Agenda», Washington Quarterly 35, no. (Fall 2012): 67–80.

²¹⁸ Hassan Bin Talal, «U.S. Can’t Abandon the Middle East», Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2012, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/17/opinion/la-oe-hassan-middle-east-engagement-20120417.

²¹⁹ Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), pp. 167—83.

²²⁰ Andrew Scott Cooper, The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), pp. 137—98.

²²¹ См.: Gene Whitney, Carl E. Behrens, and Carol Glover. «U.S. Fossil Fuel Resources: Terminology, Reporting, and Summary», U. S. Congressional Research Service, March 25, 2011, p. 22, Table 6, http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40872_20110325.pdf.

²²² Alex de Marban, «North Dakota Crude Elbows Alaska Oil Out of Washington Refinery», Alaska Dispatch, June 13, 2012, http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/north-dakota-crude-elbows-alaska-oil-out-washington-refinery.

²²³ Thomas Friedman, «The Other Arab Spring», New York Times, April 8, 2012, p. SR1.

²²⁴ «Lights Out: Another Threat to a Fragile Country’s Stability», Economist, October 8, 2011, http://www.economist.com/node/21531495.

²²⁵ Michael Kugelman, «Pakistan’s Climate Challenge», Foreign Policy, May 9, 2012, http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/ 2012/05/09/pakistans_climate_change.

²²⁶ John Bongaarts, Zeba Sathar, and Arshad Mahmoud, «Seven Billion People, How Many Pakistanis?» News, November 1, 2011, http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9—75429-Seven-billion-people-how-many-Pakistanis; «Pakistan to Become the World’s 4^th Largest Nation by 2050: Survey», Pakistan Defence, June 28, 2010, http://www.defence.pk/forums/economy-development/63702-pakistan-becomes-4th-largest-nation-population-2050-a.html.

²²⁷ Robert Worth, «Earth Is Parched Where Syrian Farms Thrived», New York Times, October 13, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/world/middleeast/14syria.html.

²²⁸ Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles (New York: Norton, 2012), p. 23.

²²⁹ Zuliu Hu and Mohsin S. Khan, Why Is China Growing So Fast? Economic Issues series, no. 8 (Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 1997), p. 1, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues8/issue8.hdf.

²³⁰ Niall Ferguson, «Mideast’s Next Dilemma: With Turkey Flexing Its Muscles, We May Soon Face a Revived Ottoman Empire», Newsweek, June 19, 2011, http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/06/19/turkey-the-mideast-next-dilemma.html#.