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Professor Gareth Stansfield

Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme

Telephone:00 96 4750 416 8519 (In Iraq to Dec 2008)
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Expertise

  • Iraq
  • Kurdistan
  • Arabian Peninsula
  • Middle East Geopolitics
  • Middle East Political Minorities

Projects

  • Book project Crisis in Kirkuk (UPenn Press) expected publication February 2009

  • Book project A History of Kurdistan (CUP) expected publication March 2009

  • Politics of Southern Iraq

  • Berber politics in North Africa

  • Gulf Security

Recent Publications

  • A History of Kurdistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
  • Crisis in Kirkuk: Managing the Disputed Territories of Iraq, with Liam Anderson, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
  • Iraq: People, History, Politics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007).
  • An Iraq of its Regions, edited collection with Reidar Visser (London: Hurst & Co., 2007).
  • 'The Kurdish Policy Imperative', with Robert Lowe and Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Chatham House Briefing Paper, December 2007
  • 'Accepting Realities in Iraq', Chatham House Briefing Paper, May 2007
  • The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division? with Liam Anderson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
  • Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).

Experience

2008-Present Senior Political Advisor, United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
2006-Present Professor of Middle East Politics, University of Exeter
2005-2006 Reader in Middle East Politics, University of Exeter
2004-2005 Lecturer in Middle East Politics, University of Exeter
2002-2004 Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellow in Political Development, University of Exeter
1997-2001 Research Associate, Centre for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, University of Durham

Broadcast Experience

Extensive

Languages

Kurdish (not for broadcast)