TY - BOOK ID - 85734838 TI - Crisis in Kirkuk : the ethnopolitics of conflict and compromise AU - Anderson, Liam D. AU - Stansfield, Gareth R. V. PY - 2009 SN - 1283891131 0812206045 0812241762 PB - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Arabs KW - Kurds KW - Turkmen KW - Compromise formation KW - Ethnic conflict KW - Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011 KW - Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011 KW - Gulf War II, 2003-2011 KW - Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010 KW - New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011 KW - Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 KW - Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011 KW - Operation Telic, 2003-2011 KW - Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011 KW - Telic, Operation, 2003-2011 KW - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 KW - Akhal Tekke-Turkomans KW - Salor-Turkomans KW - Sarik-Turkomans KW - Tekke-Turkomans KW - Turcomans KW - Turkmens KW - Turkomans KW - Ethnology KW - Turkic peoples KW - Conflict, Ethnic KW - Ethnic violence KW - Inter-ethnic conflict KW - Interethnic conflict KW - Ethnic relations KW - Social conflict KW - Repression (Psychology) KW - Iranians KW - Semites KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - Karkūk (Iraq) KW - Karkh Slukh (Iraq) KW - Kerkouk (Iraq) KW - Kerkuk (Iraq) KW - Kirkūk (Iraq) KW - History. KW - Politics and government KW - Political aspects. KW - African Studies. KW - Asian Studies. KW - Middle Eastern Studies. KW - Political Science. KW - Public Policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85734838 AB - 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. ER -