Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

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Professor Gareth Stansfield

BA (Hons.), MA, PhD (Durham), FRSA, FAcSS

Professor of Middle East Politics, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean (HASS)

g.r.v.stansfield@exeter.ac.uk

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01392 724105

Overview

Gareth Stansfield is Professor of Middle East Politics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean (HASS)  He was previously the Associate Dean Global of SSIS, and Director (HoD) of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. 

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

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Supervision

Some of the current PhD research topics that I am currently supervising are:

  • Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030” strategy: the end of oil economy?
  • Towards Constructing A Post Arab Spring GCC Security Model
  • Incomplete Democratisation: The Evolution of Kurdish Politics 1992-2013
  • Foreign Policy Analysis & Inter-State Dynamics: Riyadh, Washington, Tehran, and the Race for Regional Order.
  • Why did armed revolution of Iraqi Kurdistan lead to the political outcome of today?
  • An evolution of cross-border, multi-party cooperation in Kurdish politics from the 1890s to the present.
  • The Gulf Cooperation Council after 2011: redefining national security and rethinking threat analysis.
  • The Emergence of Iraqi Kurdistan post-2010: the regional, domestic, economic and international factors that contributed to it and the impact on regional security
  • The foreign policies, of Iran, Israel and Turkey towards Northern Iraq and their influences on the future of the Middle East.
  • U.S. Foreign Policy and the Construction of Ethno-sectarian Politics in Iraq
  • Global Oil Markets, Shi'a Protagonists and a Case Study of Iraq
  • The Last-Century’s Ethno-Nationalist Movement of The Iranian Kurds
  • The construction of a Zaza indentity in Bingol (Cewlik), Turkey, 1923-2010.

Previous PhD research topics Indclude:

  • To what extent have the prominent Kurdish political parties in the struggle for dominance over the liberation movement of Kurdistan been successful and what are the factors of shifting strategy so often?
  • Emerging foreign policy trends of Kurdish Quasi-state in Iraq.
  • Weapons, Cash, and Interests: An Analysis of UK Foreign Policy Towards Iraq, 1979 to 2001.
  • From Blueprint to Genocide? An Analysis of Iraq's Sequenced Crimes of Genocide Committed Against the Kurds of Iraq
  • Memories of violence in Cyprus: conflicting perspectives and dynamics of reconciliation
  • An Arabian Approach to Politics: Environment, Tradition and Leadership in the United Arab Emirates
  • Representation, Civil War and Humanitarian Intervention: the International Politics of Naming Algerian Violence, 1992 - 2002
  • Over-stating the Unrecognised State? Reconsidering De Facto Independent Entities in the International System
  • The Terrorism Complex
  • An International Relations Analysis of Citizenship and Intercultural Dialogue among Minority Youth in Berlin and London: A Levels-of-Analysis Approach
  • Deconstructing Ethnic Conflict and Sovereignty in Explanatory International Relations: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan and the PKK
  • Changing Ethnic Boundaries: Politics and Identity in Bolivia, 2000-2010
  • An International Relations Analysis of Citizenship and Intercultural Dialogue among Minority Youth in Berlin and London: A Levels-of-Analysis Approach
  • Throwing Water Over the Tinderbox - An Alternative for Kirkuk
  • Gender Equality and Development After Violent Conflicts: The Effects of Gender Policies in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
  • Turkey's First Participatory Constitution-Making Attempt and its Reflections on Ethnic and Religious Communities
  • Reactive Nationalism in a Homogenizing State: The Kurdish Nationalism Movement in Ba'thist Iraq, 1963 - 2003
  • Ethno-Nationalism in a De Facto State: an Investigation of National Identity among University Students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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Publications

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| To Appear | 2021 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2001 |

To Appear

  • Ahmadzadeh H, Stansfield G. The Political, Cultural, and Military Re-Awakening of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iran, MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, volume 64, no. 1, pages 11-27.
  • Stansfield GRV. A survey of possible political arrangements for Iraq.
  • Stansfield GRV. Iraq on the Way to its New Constitution: Conference Proceedings.

2021

2018

2017

2016

  • Stansfield G. (2016) Intervention in Iraq: From regime change to de facto partition, Routledge Handbook of Security Studies: Second Edition, 280-290, DOI:10.4324/9781315753393.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2016) The Kurdish Experience in Post-Saddam Iraq, The Kurdish Question Revisited, Hurst & Co and Oxford University Press.
  • Abdulrazaq T, Stansfield GRV. (2016) The Day After: What to Expect in Post-Islamic State Mosul, RUSI Journal, volume 161, pages 14-20, DOI:10.1080/03071847.2016.1184013.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2016) Explaining the Aims, Rise, and Impact of the Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham, Middle East Journal, volume 70, no. 1, pages 146-151.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2016) Segmentation of Political Parties in Underdeveloped Contexts: The Case of the Kurds, The Kurdish Moment: The Weakening of the Unitary State in the Middle East, Hurst & Co.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2016) The Iraq State, the Kurdish 'State', and State-Society Relations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Evolving State-Society Relations in Iraq: Negotiating Citizenship Under Occupation, I B Tauris.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2016) Building a Federal State: Defining Democracy and the Essence of the State in Post-2003 Iraq, Democratic Peace Across the Middle East: Islam and Political Modernisation, I B Tauris.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2016) The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq, Hurst and OUP.
  • Stansfield G. (2016) The Kurdish Question Revisited, Hurst & Co.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2016) Iraq: People, History, Politics, Polity.

2015

2014

  • Stansfield GRV. (2014) Kurdistan Rising: To Acknowledge or Ignore the Unraveling of Iraq, Brookings Institute, Brookings Institute.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2014) Kurds, Persian Nationalism, and Shi'i Rule: Surviving Persian Dominant Nationhood in Iran, Conflict, Democratization, and the Kurds in the Middle East, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2014) Irak: un avenir incertain, entre nouvelle rebellion sunnite, essor des Kurdes et survie politique de Maliki, Mondes Emergents: Afrique du Nord Moyen Orient, pages 61-74.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2014) The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq: An Assessment of UK Policy Options, International Affairs: promoting dialogue between academics and policy-makers, volume 90, no. 6, pages 1329-1350, DOI:10.1111/1468-2346.12167.

2013

  • Kinninmont J, Stansfield G, Sirri O. (2013) Iraq on the International Stage.
  • Kelly S, Stansfield G. (2013) Britain, the United Arab Emirates and the defence of the Gulf revisited, International Affairs, volume 89, no. 5, pages 1203-1219, DOI:10.1111/1468-2346.12067.
  • Kinninmont J, Sirri O, Stansfield G. (2013) Iraq's Foreign Policy: Ten Years On, Iraq Ten Years On, Chatham House.
  • Stansfield G. (2013) From the 'Kurdish Issue' to the 'Kurdistan Region of Iraq', Iraq Ten Years On, Chatham House, 25-27.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2013) The Unravelling of the Post-First World War State System? The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Transformation of the Middle East, International Affairs, volume 89, no. 2, pages 259-282, article no. 2.

2012

2010

  • Stansfield GRV. (2010) Chapter 7: The Kurdish Dilemma: The Golden Era Threatened, The Adelphi Papers, volume 43, no. 354, pages 131-148, DOI:10.1080/714027855.
  • Caspersen N, Stansfield GRV. (2010) Unrecognized States in the International System, Unrecognized States in the International System, Routledge, 1-8.
  • Stansfield GRV, Lowe R. (2010) Introduction, The Kurdish Policy Imperative, The Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1-211.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2010) The Political Parameters of Post-Withdrawal Iraq, International Affairs, volume 86, no. 6, pages 1261-1268.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2010) The Reformation of Iraq's Foreign Relations: New Elites and Enduring Legacies, International Affairs, volume 86, no. 6, pages 1395-1410.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2010) From Civil War to Calculated Compromise: The Merger of the Kurdistan Regional Governments in Iraq, The Kurdish Policy Imperative, Chatham House, 130-144.
  • Anderson L, Stansfield GRV. (2010) Avoiding Ethnic Conflict in Iraq: Some Lessons from the Åland Islands, Ethnopolitics, volume 9, no. 2, pages 219-238.
  • Stansfield GRV, Harvey J. (2010) Theorizing Unrecognised States: Sovereignty, Secessionism, and Political Economy, Unrecognized States in the International System, Routledge, 11-26.
  • Stansfield GRV, Lowe R. (2010) The Kurdish Policy Imperative, The Royal Institute for International Affairs.
  • Ahmadzadeh H, Stansfield GRV. (2010) The Political, Military, and Cultural Reawakening of the Kurdish National Movement in Iran, Middle East Journal, volume 64, no. 1, pages 1-17.
  • Stansfield GRV, Caspersen N. (2010) Unrecognized States in the International System, Routledge.

2009

  • Stansfield G, Anderson L. (2009) Kurds in Iraq: The Struggle Between Baghdad and Erbil, MIDDLE EAST POLICY, volume 16, no. 1, pages 134-145, DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4967.2009.00386.x. [PDF]
  • Stansfield GRV. (2009) Intervention in Iraq: Regime change and the dialectics of state-building, Routledge Handbook to Security Studies, Routledge, 329-338.
  • Twyman J, Sanders D, Stansfield GRV. (2009) The Iraqi Provincial Election Study, United Nations Development Programme, YouGov Special Projects, 45 pages.
  • Stansfield GRV, Anderson L. (2009) Kurds in Iraq: The Struggle Between Baghdad and Erbil, Middle East Policy, volume 16(1), pages 134-145.
  • Stansfield GRV, Anderson LD. (2009) Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise, University of Pennsylvania Press.

2008

  • Dalton R, Ansari A, Stansfield GRV, Allaf R, Brown K, Mekelberg Y, Nixey J, Nonneman G, Shehadi N, Stevens P. (2008) The Regional Dimension: Iraq, Chatham House.
  • Visser R, Stansfield GRV. (2008) An Iraq of its Region: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?, Hurst & Co; Columbia University Press.
  • Dunne TJ, Stansfield GRV. (2008) Realist and Reflectivist Perspectives on International Relations in the US “War on Terror”, America’s War on Terrorism and Contemporary US Foreign Policy, Lexington Press.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2008) Gulf Security Following the Invasion of Iraq, Arabian Gulf Security: Internal and External Challenges, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2008) Challenging Assumptions of Middle East Politics, Government and Opposition, volume 43(3), pages 497-504.

2007

  • Stansfield G. (2007) Analysis of recent trends and topics: Prospects for reconstruction in Iraq, JCCME news, volume 32, no. 1, pages 111-117.
  • Stansfield GRV, Ahmadzadeh H. (2007) Kurdish or Kurdistanis? Conceptualising regionalism in the north of Iraq, An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?, Hurst & Co, and Columbia University Press.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2007) Israeli-Egyptian (in)security: the Yom Kippur War, Foreign Policy Analysis in International Relations, OUP.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2007) Iraq: People, History, Politics, Polity Press.
  • Stansfield GRV, Resool SH. (2007) The Tortured Resurgence of Kurdish Nationalism in Iraq, 1975-1991, Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Press.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2007) Agriculture and Agribusiness in Kurdistan-Iraq, Investing in Stability, London: Newsdesk Publications.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2007) Conclusion: Regionalisms Old and New, An Iraq of its Regions: Cornerstone of a Federal Democracy?, Hurst & Co, and Columbia University Press.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2007) Accepting Realities in Iraq, Chatham House Briefing Papers, volume MEP 07/02, pages 1-12.

2006

  • Stansfield G. (2006) Memories of state: Politics, history and collective identity in modern Iraq, MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, volume 60, no. 2, pages 384-385. [PDF]
  • Stansfield G. (2006) 中東情勢分析 イラク再建と日本の役割, JCCME news, volume 31, no. 1, pages 74-96.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2006) Finding a Dangerous Equilibrium: Internal politics in Iraqi Kurdistan - Parties, tribes, religion and ethnicity reconsidered, The Kurds: Nationalism and Politics, Saqi, 258-276.
  • Stansfield GRV, Anderson LD. (2006) Les parameters changeants d’un Etat Kurde: Entre Bruxelles, Ankara et Bagdad, Etudes Kurdes, volume 8, pages 7-36.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2006) Kurdistan-Iraq: Can the Unified Regional Government Work?, Arab Reform Bulletin, volume 4(5).

2005

  • Stansfield G. (2005) Historical dictionary of Iraq, MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, volume 59, no. 1, pages 144-145. [PDF]
  • Anderson LD, Stansfield GRV. (2005) The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division?, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Anderson L, Stansfield G. (2005) The implications of elections for federalism in Iraq: Toward a five-region model, PUBLIUS-THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM, volume 35, no. 3, pages 359-382, DOI:10.1093/publius/pji024. [PDF]
  • Stansfield GRV. (2005) Metrics Don’t Make Reality, urofuture: The Quarterly Review on EU International Action, volume 6, pages 38-41.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2005) Iraq in Transition: From Occupation to Sovereignty, The Middle East and North Africa 2005, London: Europa, 105-109.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2005) History of Iraq, The Middle East and North Africa 2005, London: Europa, 461-507.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2005) Governing Kurdistan: The Strength of Division, The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 195-218.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2005) Political Life and the Military, Companion to the History of the Middle East, Oxford: Blackwell, 355-371.
  • Anderson, L.D., Stansfield GRV. (2005) The implications of elections for federalism in Iraq: toward a five-region model, Publius: the journal of federalism, volume 35(3), pages 359-382.

2004

  • Stansfield G. (2004) Iraq - Apocalypse soon?, WORLD TODAY, volume 60, no. 3, pages 4-6. [PDF]
  • Stansfield G. (2004) Iraq - The unthinkable, WORLD TODAY, volume 60, no. 5, pages 6-8. [PDF]
  • Stansfield G. (2004) The transition to democracy in Iraq: Historical legacies, resurgent identities and reactionary tendencies, pages 131-155, DOI:10.4324/9780203325964.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2004) The Removal of Saddam and the Deconstruction of Iraq, The Middle East and North Africa 2004, London: Europa, 99-104.
  • Stansfield GRV, Anderson LD. (2004) The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division?, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2004) Political Parties of Iraq, Political Parties of the World, London: J H Publishing, 309-316.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2004) The Transition to Democracy in Iraq: Historical Legacies, Resurgent Identities and Reactionary Tendencies, The Iraq War and Democratic Politics, London: Routledge, 134-159.

2003

  • Stansfield G. (2003) Towards a new government in Iraq - Farce or future?, WORLD TODAY, volume 59, no. 4, pages 7-9. [PDF]
  • Stansfield GRV. (2003) Iraqi Kurdistan: Political development and emergent democracy, DOI:10.4324/9780203398302.
  • Stansfield G. (2003) Iraq and its Kurdish 'state' - Dream on, WORLD TODAY, volume 59, no. 2, pages 9-11. [PDF]
  • Stansfield G. (2003) Governing Iraq - Who's boss around here anyway?, WORLD TODAY, volume 59, no. 7, pages 6-8. [PDF]
  • Stansfield GRV. (2003) Toward a sustainable institutional arrangement for Iraq, Constitutional Options for Post-War Iraq. Ottawa: Forum of Federations, 26-35.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2003) Iraqi Kurdistan: Political Development and Emergent Democracy, Routledge/Curzon.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2003) Politics and Governance in the New Iraq: Reconstruction of the New Versus Resurrection of the Old, War in Iraq: Combat and Consequence. RUSI Whitehall Paper 59, London: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 67-83.
  • Stansfield, G.. (2003) The Kurdish dilemma: the golden era threatened, Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change, Oxford University Press, 131-148.

2001

  • Stansfield GRV. (2001) Distribution of Asylum Requests Over European Countries: A Qualitative Description and Analysis of Male Potential Asylum Seekers from Erbil, Northern Iraq (Kurdistan), Distribution of Asylum Requests Over European Countries. Neuchâtel: Schweizerisches Forum für Migrationsstudien, 289-326.
  • Stansfield GRV. (2001) The 1995-1996 Yemen-Eritrea Conflict over the Islands of Hanish and Jabal Zuqar: A Geopolitical Analysis, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

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Teaching

Modules taught

  • ARA3163 - Politics and Reform in the Gulf

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