Professor Gareth Stansfield BA (Hons.), MA, PhD (Durham), FRSA

Publications

Publications I: Books/Collections

Authored books in print

1. Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise. Co authored with Liam Anderson. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsyivania Press, forthcoming.

a. Arabic edition under negotiation.

2. Iraq: People, History, Politics. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007, 262 pp. See review by Professor Tahir Abbas in MWBR, and review by Professor Michael Gunter in Middle East Journal.

a. Arabic edition. Published by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Abu Dhabi, 2008.

3. The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division? Co-authored with Liam Anderson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 260 pp.

a. Revised and updated 2^nd edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 278 pp.

b. Arabic edition. Iraq al-Mustaqbal: Dictatoriyya, Dimocrattiyya am Taqsim? London: Al-Warrak Publishers, 2005, 424 pp.

4. Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, 261 pp. See review by Professor Martin van Bruinessen in International Journal of Middle East Studies (November 2007).

5. The 1995-1996 Yemen-Eritrea Conflict over the Islands of Hanish and Jabal Zuqar: A Geopolitical Analysis. Durham: Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Occasional Paper No. 66, 2001, 80 pp.

Edited books in print

1. The Kurdish Policy Imperative. Co-edited with Robert Lowe. London: Chatham House, forthcoming.

2. An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? edited collection with Reidar Visser. London and New York: Hurst & Co. and Columbia University Press, 2007, 274pp. Co-editor, contributed one joint-authored chapter, and wrote the conclusion (listed in ‘Articles and Chapters’).

Authored books in preparation

1. A History of Kurdistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, delivery date of December 2007.

2. On the Verge of Statehood: The Kurds of Iraq. London: Routledge, delivery date of August 2007.

3. Understanding Political Mobilization in Divided Societies. Planned monograph based upon USIP grant research and expanded journal articles.

Edited books in preparation

1. Kurdish Studies Reader. Co-edited with Hashem Ahmadzadeh. Contract under negotiation.

2. Making Sense of 'Unrecognized States'. Contract under negotiation

Publications II: Articles and Chapters

1. ‘Terror, Order, Justice: Contending International Relations Perspectives on Bush's “War” on Terror’, (with Tim Dunne) in John Owens and John Dumbrell (eds.) America’s War on Terrorism and Contemporary US Foreign Policy. Lexington, MA: Lexington Press, 2008.

2. ‘Agriculture and Agribusiness in Kurdistan-Iraq’ in Brendan O’Leary (ed.) Investing in Stability. London: Newsdesk Publications, 2007.

3. ‘Israeli-Egyptian (in)security: the Yom Kippur War’, in Tim Dunne, Amelia Hadfield, and Steve Smith (eds.) Foreign Policy Analysis in International Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 285-300.

4. ‘Conclusion: Regionalisms Old and New,’ in Reidar Visser and Gareth Stansfield (eds.) An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstone of a Federal Democracy? London and New York: Hurst & Co. and Columbia University Press, 2007, pp. 257-266.

5. ‘Kurdish or Kurdistanis? Conceptualising regionalism in the north of Iraq’, co-authored with Hashem Ahmadzadeh, in Reidar Visser and Gareth Stansfield (eds.) An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? London and New York: Hurst & Co. and Columbia University Press, pp. 123-150.

6. ‘The Tortured Resurgence of Kurdish Nationalism in Iraq, 1975-1991’, (with Shorsh Haji Resool) in Michael Gunter and Mohammed Ahmed (eds.)Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Press, 2007.

7. ‘Les parameters changeants d’un Etat Kurde: Entre Bruxelles, Ankara et Bagdad’, (with Liam Anderson) in Études Kurdes, no. 8 (Septembre), 2006, pp. 7-36.

8. ‘Al-intiqal ila-l-dimuqratiyya: al-irth al-ta’rikhi wa-l-huwiyyat al-sa‘ida wa-l-mayul al-raj‘iyya’, in Faleh Abd al-Jabar, ed., al-Mujtama’ al-‘Iraqi: hafariyyat susiyulujiyya fi-l-inthiyyat wa-l-tawa‘if wa-l-tabaqat. Baghdad/Beirut: Ma‘had al-dirasat al-stratijiyya, 2006, pp. 339-387.

9. ‘The Kurdish Question in Iraq, 1914-1974’, contribution to the National Archive (formerly PRO) website ‘Iraq, 1914-1974’ as part of The Middle East: A Documentary Resource.

10. ‘Finding a Dangerous Equilibrium: The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq’, in Faleh Abd al-Jabar and Hashem Daoud, eds., The Kurds: Nationalism and Politics. London: Saqi, 2006.

a. Arabic translation. ‘al-tawasal ila tuazan khadr: al-sayasaya al-Kurdiyya fi ‘iraq ma ba’d Saddam’, in Faleh Abd al-Jabar and Hashem Daoud, eds., al-ithniyya w’al-dawla: al-akrad fi al-‘Iraq wa Iran wa Turkiyya. Baghdad/Beirut: Ma‘had al-dirasat al-stratijiyya, 2006, pp. 421-452.

b. Kurdish translation

11. ‘Kurdistan-Iraq: Can the Unified Regional Government Work?’ in Arab Reform Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 5, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 2006.

12. ‘The Implications of Elections for Federalism in Iraq: Toward a Five-Region Model’, co-authored with Liam Anderson) in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 35, no. 3, 2005, pp. 359-382.

13. ‘Metrics Don’t Make Reality’, Eurofuture: The Quarterly Review on EU International Action, no. 6, Winter, 2005, pp. 38-41.

14. ‘Political Life and the Military’, in Youssef Choueiri (ed.) Companion to the History of the Middle East . Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 355-371.

15. ‘Governing Kurdistan: The Strength of Division’, in Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Saleh (eds.) The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, pp. 195-218.

a. Revised 2^nd edition. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

16. ‘The Transition to Democracy in Iraq: Historical Legacies, Resurgent Identities and Reactionary Tendencies’, in Alex Danchev & John Macmillan (eds.) The Iraq War and Democratic Politics. London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 134-159.

17. ‘Iraq in Transition: From Occupation to Sovereignty’, in The Middle East and North Africa 2005. London: Europa, 2005, pp. 105-109.

18. ‘History of Iraq’, in The Middle East and North Africa 2005 (Rewrite of previous essay). London: Europa, 2005, pp. 461-507.

19. ‘Political Parties of Iraq’, in Political Parties of the World . London: J H Publishing, 2004, pp. 309-316.

20. Iraq on the Way to its New Constitution: Conference Proceedings. Ankara: Bilkent University/Turkish Foreign Policy Institute, 2004, pp. 21-23, 45-47, 63-64, 122-125.

21. ‘The Iraq War’, in Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia, 2004 (internet resource, www.go.grolier.com).

22. ‘Carpişan Milliyetcilikler ve Irak Devleti’nin Cőkűşű’, in Fulya Atacan (ed.) Değişen Toplumlar Değişmeyen Siyaset: Ortadoğu. Istanbul: Bağlam Yayincilik, 2004, pp. 181-190.

23. ‘The Removal of Saddam and the Deconstruction of Iraq’, in The Middle East and North Africa 2004. London: Europa, 2004, pp. 99-104.

24. ‘History of Iraq’, in The Middle East and North Africa 2004 (Rewrite of previous essay). London: Europa, 2004, pp. 444-488.

25. Contributor to The Iraq Policy Group: Transitional Authority in Iraq. Centre for Defence Studies Policy Research Papers. London: King’s College, 2003.

26. (with Hassan Abdulrazak) ‘A survey of possible political arrangements for Iraq’, in Céline Auclair (ed.) Constitutional Options for Post-War Iraq. Ottawa: Forum of Federations, 2003, pp. 15-25.

a. Arabic translation. ‘Mas’h lil-tartibat aw al-andhima al-sayasiyya al-muhtamala fl al-‘Iraq’, in Céline Auclair (ed.) al-Khayarat al-Dusturiyya lil-‘Iraq ma ba’d al-Harb. Ottawa: Forum of Federations, 2003, pp. 17-29.

27. ‘Toward a sustainable institutional arrangement for Iraq’, in Céline Auclair (ed.) Constitutional Options for Post-War Iraq. Ottawa: Forum of Federations, 2003, pp. 26-35.

a. Arabic translation. ‘Nahuwa tadbir mussasati mustadam lil-‘Iraq’, in Céline Auclair (ed.) al-Khayarat al-Dusturiyya lil-‘Iraq ma ba’d al-Harb. Ottawa: Forum of Federations, 2003, pp. 30-42.

28. ‘Politics and Governance in the New Iraq: Reconstruction of the New Versus Resurrection of the Old’, in Jonathan Eyal (ed.) War in Iraq: Combat and Consequence. RUSI Whitehall Paper 59. London: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 2003, pp. 67-83.

29. ‘The Kurdish Dilemma: The Golden Era Threatened’, in Toby Dodge & Steve Simon (eds.) Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change. International Institute for Strategic Studies Adelphi Paper no. 354. Oxford and London: IISS/Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 131-148.

30. ‘Distribution of Asylum Requests Over European Countries: A Qualitative Description and Analysis of Male Potential Asylum Seekers from Erbil, Northern Iraq (Kurdistan)’, in D Efionayi-Mäder, M Chimienti, J Dahinden & E Piguet (eds.), Distribution of Asylum Requests Over European Countries. Neuchâtel: Schweizerisches Forum für Migrationsstudien, 2001, pp. 289-326.

Articles and chapters in preparation

1. ‘The Future Security Situation in Iraq and Implications for the Gulf’, in edited collection published by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Abu Dhabi, 2007.

2. ‘The Kurds of Iran’, (with Hashem Ahmadzadeh) Middle East Programme Briefing Paper. London: Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs).

3. ‘Kirkuk and Ethno-political Conflict in Iraq,’ (with Liam Anderson) for submission to Middle East Policy.

4. ‘The Bitterest of Friends: The Merger of the Kurdistan Regional Governments in Iraq,’ part of USIP grant research, for submission to peer-reviewed journal.

5. ‘Considering the tribes in Kurdistan-Iraq’s post-Saddam political development,’ part of USIP grant research, for submission to peer-reviewed journal.

6. ‘Assessing the role of Islamist organizations in Kurdistan-Iraq,’ part of USIP grant research, for submission to peer-reviewed journal.

7. ‘To be a minority in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Political and civic organizations of the Chaldo-Assyrians and Turkmen in Kurdistan-Iraq,’ part of USIP grant research.

8. ‘The Formation and Early Development of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,’ for submission to the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

Publications III: Briefings, Magazines and Newspapers

1. ‘Experts’ Comments: The Petraeus Report – Implications for Iraq’, Chatham House, September 2007.

2. ‘Iraq is Dead’, The World Today, May 2007, pp. 19-21.

3. Accepting Realities in Iraq, Briefing Paper 07/02, Middle East Programme, Chatham House, May 2007.

4. ‘Em hewley Amrika dwayin karte u serkewtnish misoger niye’ (‘The last card of the Americans does not guarantee victory’), Gulan, no. 618, January 2007, p. 19.

5. ‘Beyond the Point of No Return’, The World Today, January 2007, pp.4-6.

6. ‘Iraq: Divide or Die’, (with Liam Anderson) Open Democracy, 23 November 2006.

7. ‘The Only Future for Iraq’, The Sunday Telegraph, 29 October 2006.

8. Contributor to Iran, its Neighbours and the Regional Crises, Middle East Programme Report, Chatham House, 2006, pp. 18-21.

9. ‘Le contexte historique des relations communautaires et les perspectives pour l’avenir’, in NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Groupe Special Mediterranee, Seminaire a Naples – Defis de Securite en Mediterranee et au Moyen-Orient, 2-3 July 2006, pp. 51-58, 63-66.

10. ‘Can Iraq’s Kurds Transcend Persistent Factionalism?’ The Daily Star (Beirut), 19 June 2006.

11. ‘The Unification of the Kurdistan Regional Government’, Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, May 2006.

12. ‘Divide and Heal’, Prospect Magazine, issue 122, May 2006, pp. 22-27.

13. ‘Into the Abyss,’ The World Today, vol. 62, no. 4, May 2006, pp. 18-20.

14. ‘Divided, Iraq Might Just Have a Chance’ The Sunday Telegraph, 19 March 2006, p. 24.

15. ‘Kurdish Representation in London,’ The Middle East in London, February 2006, vol. 2, no. 8, pp. 10-12.

16. ‘Iraq After the Referendum: Stuff of Nightmares,’ in The World Today, October 2005, pp. 9-11.

17. ‘Political Developments in Post-Saddam Iraq,’ in House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Policy Aspects of the War Against Terrorism (Sixth Report of Session 2004-05) Volume II, pp. Ev 135-137.

18. ‘Iraq: Make Up or Break Up,’ posted on Kurdish Media and Kurdistan Observer, 7 March 2005.

19. ‘Make Up, or Break Up,’ The World Today, March 2005, pp. 4-6.

20. ‘The Kurds after the Iraqi Elections,’ Oxford Analytica Daily Brief, February 2005.

21. ‘Letter from Iraq,’ Hulme Grammar School Old Boy’s Association Newsletter, 34, January 2005.

22. Iraq in Transition: Vortex or Catalyst? Briefing Paper No. 4/2. RIIA, London, September 2004.

23. ‘Continued developments threaten Iraq’s territorial integrity’ in Kurdistan Observer and Kurdish Media, 20 May 2004.

24. ‘Don’t allow the ethnic fissures to widen in Iraq,’ in Gulf News and Kurdistan World, 18 May 2004.

25. ‘The Unthinkable,’ in The World Today, May 2004. London: RIIA, pp. 6-8.

26. ‘What to do about Iraq?’ London Middle East Institute magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, April 2004, pp. 8-10.

27. ‘The Reshaping of Sunni Politics in Iraq,’ Al-Jazeera.Net, 15 March 2004. Doha: Al-Jazeera.

28. ‘Apocalypse Soon?’ in The World Today, vol. 60, no. 3, March 2004. London: RIIA, pp. 4-6.

29. ‘Governing Iraq: Who’s Boss Around Here Anyway?’ in The World Today, Vol. 23 No. 7, July 2003. London: RIIA, pp. 6-8.

30. ‘The Iraqi Kurds: A New Start or Repeated History?’ in RUSI Newsbrief, Vol. 23 No. 4, April 2003. London: RUSI, pp. 40-41.

31. ‘Toward a New Government in Iraq: Farce or Future?’ in The World Today, Vol. 59, No. 4, April 2003. London: RIIA, pp.7-9.

32. ‘A Novel Mix of the Modern and Traditional,’ in The Scotsman, 27 March 2003.

33. ‘Can the Iraqi Opposition Unite?’ The Observer Comment Extra: The World Today Essay. London: The Observer, March 2003.

34. ‘Iraq and its Kurdish State: Dream On,’ in The World Today, Vol. 59, No. 3, February 2003. London: RIIA.

35. ‘Insight into Iraq,’ in Expression: The Magazine for Exeter Alumni, Winter 2002. University of Exeter.

36. ‘News Section: Middle East and North Africa.’ Boundary and Security Bulletin. Vol. 4, No. 2. Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit, Summer 1996.

37. ‘News Section: Middle East and North Africa.’ Boundary and Security Bulletin. Vol. 4, No. 1. Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit, Spring 1996.

38. ‘News Section: Middle East and North Africa.’ Boundary and Security Bulletin. Vol. 3, No. 4. Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit, Winter 1995.

39. ‘News Section: Middle East and North Africa.’ Boundary and Security Bulletin. Vol. 3, No. 3. Durham: International Boundaries Research Unit, Autumn 1995, pp. 10-12.

Selected significant public lectures, presentations and conference participation

1. Guest lecture, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London, June 2008.

2. Invited plenary panel paper presenter at the UK Political Studies Association conference. Paper on ‘Taking Failure Seriously in Iraq’ on The Political Dilemmas of Contemporary Iraq plenary panel. Swansea University, 1-3 April 2008.

3. Guest lecture, Penn Program on Ethnic Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, 3 December 2007.

4. Invited briefing, the Saban Center, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 15 November 2007.

5. Invited lecture, 3 (UK) Div, Royal School of Artillery, Wiltshire, 6 November 2007.

6. Conference Co-Convenor, Chatham House conference on ‘The Kurdish Policy Imperative’. Presented paper and chaired panel, London, 26 October.

7. Invited speaker, conference on Middle East Politics, Oxford Economics, St Anne’s College, Oxford, 26 September.

8. Symposium co-convenor, ESRC Symposium on ‘Disunited Kingdom: UK Foreign Policy after Iraq’. Presented paper on ‘The Shadow of Iraq’. Exeter, 10-11 September.

9. Participant, meeting with the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the Iraqi National Assembly, Chatham House, London, 15 March 2007.

10. Invited speaker on Iraqi politics, Advanced Command and Staff Course, Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham, 12 March 2007.

11. Invited presentation on ‘The Future Security Situation in Iraq and Implications for the Gulf’, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) Conference, Abu Dhabi, March 2007.

12. Guest speaker, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, York, 19 December 2006.

13. Conference co-convenor and paper presenter, ‘An Iraq of its Regions’, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 12 December 2006.

14. Invited symposium participant, ‘Securing Iraqis’ Future,’ hosted by the London Middle East Institute at SOAS, September 2006.

15. Presented paper on ‘Untangling Prospects for Iraq’ to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Mediterranean Special Group, Naples, 2-3 July 2006.

16. Invited lecture to the Joint Services Command and Staff College Advanced Command and Staff Course, Shrivenham, April 2006.

17. Invited presentation at the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), Seaford House, London, March 2006.

18. Invited speaker at Royal United Services Institute conference on Transnational Terrorism, 16 January 2006.

19. Panel speaker at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington DC, November 2005.

20. Invited speaker, Kurdish National Congress of North America conference, universities of Salahadin and Suleimani, Iraqi Kurdistan, November 2005.

21. Invited participant in seminar hosted by Institue d’Etudes du Securite (Paris) on ‘The Kurdish Issue and the EU’, October 2005.

22. Paper presentation at the BRISMES/European Middle East Studies Association (EUROMES) conference, University of Durham, September 2005.

23. Invited guest speaker at the Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies Conference, Boston, MA, September 2005.

24. Paper presentation at the International Studies Association annual conference, Honolulu, March 2005.

25. Invited speaker, Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge, on Iraq and Regional Security. 21 January 2005.

26. Guest lecture at the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford University, 12 November 2004.

27. Guest lecture at the Bath Historical Association on the History of Iraq. Bath, 29 October 2004.

28. Invited participant, ‘The Future of Iraq’, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Eleventh Ditchley Park Conference, 3-5 September.

29. ‘Iraqi Kurdistan and the New Iraq’, guest lecture at the National Defense University, Washington DC, 21 July 2004.

30. ‘Scenarios for the Future of Iraq’, Politics Department, American University of Beirut, 8 June 2004.

31. ‘Internal Political Developments in Iraq’, Centre for Strategic Studies and Research, Damascus, 2 June 2004.

32. Invited participant for symposium ‘Iraq on the way to its new constitution’ convened by the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute, Bilkent University, Ankara, 22-23 March 2004.

33. Invited lecture to University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 23 October 2003

34. Invited lecture to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Victoria University, Wellington, 19 October 2003.

35. Invited lecture to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, Timaru branch, 22 October 2003.

36. Invited participant for symposium held at the Crown Prince’s Court, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 12 October 2003.

37. ‘The New Iraq: Toward the Institutionalization of Communal Identity’, invited presenter at international conference on ‘Post Saddam Iraq: New Challenges and Prospects in the Middle East. Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, 10 October 2003.

38. Invited to brief European Commissioner for External Relations (Chris Patten) on Iraqi politics. Brussels, 10 June 2003.

39. ‘Winning the Peace in Iraq,’ lecture at the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, London, 15 May 2003.

40. Invited to present paper on ‘Changing Political Authority in Iraq’, at seminar at the London Middle East Institute, SOAS, London, October 2003.

41. Guest lecturer at the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, on ‘The ‘Democracy Dilemma in Iraq’, November 2003.

42. Invited participant in workshop on ‘Iraq at the Crossroads’, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 18 September 2002.

43. ‘Iraqi Kurdish Political Dynamics’, briefing to Swiss Office of Refugees, Ministry of Justice, Bern, 8 May 2002.

44. ‘Political Development of Iraqi Kurdistan’, invited lecture to the National Defense University, Washington DC, December 2001.

45. ‘Future Humanitarian Needs in Iraq’, paper presented at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, 2001.