Brian McQuinn, Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Regina, Canada, and an expert on armed groups and peace building, joins Dr. Katharina Emschermann, Deputy Director at the Centre for International Security, to talk about Libya. They discuss: • the origins of the 2011 Libyan uprisings, • the “who’s who” of the ensuing conflict, • his experience living among rebels in Misrata for ethnographic studies, and • the many “ifs” deciding the fate of the Libyan peace process.
Bibliography
Badi, Emadeddin/ Lacher, Wolfram (2021): Agree to Disagree: Libya’s New Unity Government, in: Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/83839
Cole, Peter/ McQuinn, Brian (eds) (2015): The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath, London: Hurst Publishers, https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210960.001.0001/acprof-9780190210960
Costantini, Irene (2016): Conflict Dynamics in Post-2011 Libya: A Political Economy Perspective, in: Conflict, Security & Development, 16(5), 405-422, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14678802.2016.1212534
Dassù, Marta (2020): Why the War in Libya is a Test for Italy – and for a Geopolitical European Commission, https://ecfr.eu/article/commentary_why_the_war_in_libya_is_a_test_for_italy_and_for_a_geopolitical/
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Lacher, Wolfram (2021): Unser schwieriger Partner: Deutschlands und Frankreichs erfolgloses Engagement in Libyen und Mali [Our Difficult Partner: Germany’s and France’s Unsuccessful Engagement in Libya and Mali], SWP-Studie 2021/S 03, https://www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/deutschlands-und-frankreichs-erfolgloses-engagement-in-libyen-und-mali/ (in German)
McQuinn, Brian (2013): Assessing (In) security after the Arab Spring: The Case of Libya, in: PS: Political Science and Politics, 46 (4), 716-720, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/abs/assessing-insecurity-after-the-arab-spring-the-case-of-libya/07D6A2263601379C0B33E9B0C5BEA253
McQuinn, Brian (2016): DDR and the Internal Organization of Non-State Armed Groups, in: Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 5(1): 2–25.
McQuinn, Brian/ Couchesne, Laura (2020): Armed-Group Proliferation: Origins and Consequences, Armed Conflict Survey, 6:1, 14-18, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23740973.2020.1761609?journalCode=tarm20
Megerisi, Tarek (2019): Libya’s Global Civil War, Policy Brief, https://ecfr.eu/publication/libyas_global_civil_war1/
Pack, Jason/ Pusztai, Wolfgang (2020): Turning the Tide: How Turkey Won the War for Tripoli, Policy Paper, Middle East Institute, https://www.mei.edu/sites/default/files/2020-11/Turning%20the%20Tide%20-%20How%20Turkey%20Won%20the%20War%20for%20Tripoli.pdf
Reuters (2020): Factbox: Who's involved in Libya's war and why, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-intervention-factbox-idUSKBN2351W0
Vandewalle, Dirk (2012): After Qaddafı: The Surprising Success of the New Libya, in: Foreign Affairs, 91 (6), 8–15, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/libya/2012-09-16/after-qaddafi
Wehrey, Frederic (2020): “This War Is Out of Our Hands”: The Internationalization of Libya’s Post-2011 Conflicts From Proxies to Boots on the Ground, https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/09/14/this-war-is-out-of-our-hands-internationalization-of-libya-s-post-2011-conflicts-from-proxies-to-boots-on-ground-pub-82695
Brian McQuinn’s Choice for Best Article/Book:
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith (2013): How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons), in: London Review of Books, 35 (4), https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/ghaith-abdul-ahad/how-to-start-a-battalion-in-five-easy-lessons
Lewis, Janet (2020): How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.