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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Professor Gareth Stansfield

Associate Fellow, Middle East 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)