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'''''Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise''''' is an academic book by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield, published in 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.<ref></ref>
==Content==
The city of [[Kirkuk]], is the capital of the [[Kirkuk Governorate]] in Iraq, is the subject of this academic study because, according to the authors, "it is no exaggeration to assert that the future of Iraq hinges on finding a resolution to the problem of Kirkuks status in a way that is mutually tolerable to all parties".<ref name=gunter/> While Kirkuk in the latter years of the [[Iraqi conflict (2003–present)]] has not seen the widespread urban warfare of other cities or "large-scale interethnic violence", one reviewer of the book noted that "it is consistently described as a powder keg, and its future is often portrayed as crucial to the very survival of Iraq as a single state.<ref></ref> Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen all share this city (with Christians as a fourth group, though a small one); Anderson and Stansfield maintain that it is not (just) the area's rich oil reserves that fuel its conflict, but also, and more importantly, competing narratives about history from competing populations.<ref name=gunter></ref>
The book is divided into four parts: the history of Kirkuk, the competing historical narratives, the struggle for Kirkuk post-2003 and the rise and fall of Kurdish power, and finally the causes for and results of the Kurdish refusal to enact Article 140 of the 2005 [[Constitution of Iraq]].<ref name=gunter/> Michael Gunter, who reviewed the book for ''[[Perspectives on Politics]]'', noted two levels of reading. The first is "as an important but nuanced analysis of the crisis in Kirkuk and how it will affect the future of Iraq", but Gunter was drawn more to what he saw as the second level, which treated the history of Kirkuk as a case study "for theories of democratic governance and its efficiency". Four models for governance are proposed--on one extreme end is the Israeli model which "explains how Israel is able to control its sizable Arab minority population without allowing it to share power". More in the middle is a model in which two groups alternate power, followed by a model in which populations are proportionally represented based on sice; on the other extreme is a model where all populations are equally powerful despite size--the model of [[concurrent majority]] that [[John C. Calhoun]] had advocated, in which nothing can happen unless all groups approve.<ref name=gunter/>
===Authors===
*Liam Anderson is a professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at [[Wright State University]]<ref></ref>
*Gareth Stansfield is a professor of Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:History books about cities]]
[[Category:History books about Iraq]]
==Content==
The city of [[Kirkuk]], is the capital of the [[Kirkuk Governorate]] in Iraq, is the subject of this academic study because, according to the authors, "it is no exaggeration to assert that the future of Iraq hinges on finding a resolution to the problem of Kirkuks status in a way that is mutually tolerable to all parties".<ref name=gunter/> While Kirkuk in the latter years of the [[Iraqi conflict (2003–present)]] has not seen the widespread urban warfare of other cities or "large-scale interethnic violence", one reviewer of the book noted that "it is consistently described as a powder keg, and its future is often portrayed as crucial to the very survival of Iraq as a single state.<ref></ref> Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen all share this city (with Christians as a fourth group, though a small one); Anderson and Stansfield maintain that it is not (just) the area's rich oil reserves that fuel its conflict, but also, and more importantly, competing narratives about history from competing populations.<ref name=gunter></ref>
The book is divided into four parts: the history of Kirkuk, the competing historical narratives, the struggle for Kirkuk post-2003 and the rise and fall of Kurdish power, and finally the causes for and results of the Kurdish refusal to enact Article 140 of the 2005 [[Constitution of Iraq]].<ref name=gunter/> Michael Gunter, who reviewed the book for ''[[Perspectives on Politics]]'', noted two levels of reading. The first is "as an important but nuanced analysis of the crisis in Kirkuk and how it will affect the future of Iraq", but Gunter was drawn more to what he saw as the second level, which treated the history of Kirkuk as a case study "for theories of democratic governance and its efficiency". Four models for governance are proposed--on one extreme end is the Israeli model which "explains how Israel is able to control its sizable Arab minority population without allowing it to share power". More in the middle is a model in which two groups alternate power, followed by a model in which populations are proportionally represented based on sice; on the other extreme is a model where all populations are equally powerful despite size--the model of [[concurrent majority]] that [[John C. Calhoun]] had advocated, in which nothing can happen unless all groups approve.<ref name=gunter/>
===Authors===
*Liam Anderson is a professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at [[Wright State University]]<ref></ref>
*Gareth Stansfield is a professor of Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:History books about cities]]
[[Category:History books about Iraq]]
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