Crisis in Kirkuk : the ethnopolitics of conflict and compromise / Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Liam D.

Contributor:

Stansfield, Gareth R. V.

Series:

National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century

National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic conflict--Iraq--Karkūk--History--21st century.

Ethnic conflict.

Compromise formation--Iraq--Karkūk--History--21st century.

Compromise formation.

Turkmen--Iraq--Karkūk--Social conditions--21st century.

Turkmen.

Kurds--Iraq--Karkūk--Social conditions--21st century.

Kurds.

Arabs--Iraq--Karkūk--Social conditions--21st century.

Arabs.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Social aspects--Iraq--Karkūk.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Political aspects--Iraq--Karkūk.

Karkūk (Iraq)--Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Karkūk (Iraq).

Karkūk (Iraq)--Politics and government--21st century.

Karkūk (Iraq)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Despite dramatic improvements in the security environment in most parts of Iraq, still unresolved are many core political issues, foremost of which is the conflict over the city and region of Kirkuk. With immense oil reserves and a diverse population of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmens, Kirkuk in recent history has been scarred by interethnic violence and state-sponsored ethnic cleansing. Throughout the twentieth century, successive Arab Iraqi governments engaged in a brutal campaign to increase Kirkuk's Arab population at the expense of Kurds and Turkmens. Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a newly empowered Kurdish leadership has sought to reverse the effects of the Arabization campaign and to hold a referendum on incorporating Kirkuk into the Kurdistan Region. The Kurds' efforts are, however, strongly opposed by Kirkuk's Turkmens, Arabs, and also most states in the region.In Crisis in Kirkuk, Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield offer a dispassionate analysis of one of Iraq's most pressing and unresolved problems. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, the authors investigate the claims to ownership made by each of Kirkuk's competing communities. They consider the constitutional mechanisms put in place to address the issue and the problems that have plagued their implementation. The book concludes with an assessment of the measures needed to resolve the crisis in Kirkuk, stressing that finding a compromise acceptable to all sides is vital to the future stability of Iraq.

Contents:

Kirkuk before Iraq

Kirkuk in the twentieth century

The post-2003 Iraqi context

The Turkmen perspective : the demise of a formerly dominant community

The Kurdish perspective : gaining "Jerusalem"

The Arab perspective : applying the old rules

The Kurds ascendant

The Kurds triumphant

The Kurds denied

The struggle for Kirkuk : problems of process

The struggle for Kirkuk : problems of final status

The struggle for Kirkuk : future governance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-281) and index.

ISBN:

9781283891134

1283891131

9780812206043

0812206045

OCLC:

794929407