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The World Today - October issueThe World Today - October issue
Monday 6 October 2008
The current financial crisis should come as no surprise, writes Dr Paola Subacchi in this month's The World Today....

Somali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International CommunitySomali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International Community
Thursday 2 October 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008 and threatens to disrupt international trade and...

Six Perspectives on the Georgia ConflictSix Perspectives on the Georgia Conflict
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Six new briefing notes from the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House offer analysis and insight on the...

Making Sense of the EU Climate Change Package
October, 2008
The EU is currently at a hectic stage in the development of its internal climate change policies. Having proposed...

Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
October, 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008; so far over 60 ships have been...

Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable Forest Use in the Democratic Republic of Congo
October, 2008
Download Paper here (French version) This is a report of a meeting, Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable...

After the Battle: What the August War will mean for Russia's Domestic Politics
September, 2008
The true driver of Russia's foreign agenda is the domestic situation. The Russian ruling class has returned to a...

 

 

Professor Gareth Stansfield

Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme

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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

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)