Brendan O'Leary

“adds up to a strong pitch for a viable Kurdistan within an Iraq federal state – or even an independent Kurdistan if the several contending forces in Iraq will not accept federalism. Much has happened since mid-2004 when this book went to press [but] the analysis and prescription presented here remain relevantâ€?. Professor L. Carl Brown, Princeton University, Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2005

“[an] outstanding collectionâ€? which “illustrates[s] the virtue of academic engagement with current predicaments.â€?, Professor Tim Dunne, University of Exeter, Times Higher Education Supplement 07 June 2005:

“A core resource for anyone with a serious interest in Iraq and the U.S. military …. these essays deepened my knowledge of this critical subject area, and I learned even where I disagreed. I recommend the book as a whole and strongly recommend the excellent essays authored by Brendan O’Leary and Peter Galbraithâ€?, Professor Gregory P. Nowell, State University of New York, Publius: the Journal of Federalism, 2005.

“When more than one hundred London-based diplomats, politicians, journalists, and international affairs analysts turn out for a discussion of a book, one knows that the book is timely and has something to say about pressing current international affairs and about its topic’s potential for impacting regional and international geopolitical alignments. This is what happened on 31 May 2005 at Chatham House, a British think tank associated closely with the United Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry. The book discussed was The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq, edited by Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry, and Khaled Salih. O’Leary is a noted international authority on various types of governmental arrangements, such as federations, confederations, and plurifederations… The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq well deserves the prestigious turnout it produced at Chatham House, Robert Olson, University of Kentucky, Mediterranean Quarterly: Fall 2005.â€?

“the first detailed scholarly study of the kind of federation that would best serve the interests of the Kurds and the other peoples of Iraq…Highly recommendedâ€?, Choice, November 2005.… (meer)