Reidar Visser [Seniorforsker]

Publikasjoner

• Visser, Reidar (2012). Sectarian Coexistence in Iraq: The Experiences of the Shi‘a in Areas North of Baghdad,

  in Imranali Panjwani (ed): The Shi’a of Samarra: The Heritage & Politics of a Community in Iraq

  .I.B.Tauris.s. 163-176.In this book chapter, Reidar Visser discusses the experiences of the shi‘a in areas north of Baghdad in a wider Iraqi politics discourse. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2011). An Unstable, Divided Land . The New York Times, 16. desember
• Visser, Reidar (2011). Iraq,

  in Assaf Moghadam (ed.) Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism: Trends and Patterns 

  .New York,Routledge.s. .Reidar Visser has written a contribution on Iraq in Assaf Moghadam's book about militancy and political violence in Shiism. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2011). Policing a Messy Federation: The Role of the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court, 2005-2010,

  in Orient vol. 52 nr. 2

  .s. 12-18.This article looks at the role of the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court in adjudicating the ground rules of Iraq’s new federalism that have been introduced gradually since the US occupation began in 2003. The main argument is that from the adoption of the new Iraqi constitution in October 2005, the supreme court has changed its views on federalism quite considerably, apparently at least to some extent due to political pressure. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2010). Tribalism in Iraq: resurgent force or anachronism in the modern state? ,

  Contemporary Arab Affairs, vol. 3 nr. 4

  .Routledge.s. 495-502.This article criticizes the way in which the concept of 'tribalism' has been used by Western policy-makers and media in post-2003 Iraq. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2010). Iraq Moves Backward,

  Middle East Report no. 255, Summer 2010

  .s. 2-7. There's been a dramatic change in Iraqi politics from 2009 to 2010. The easiest way to understand this change is to look at shifts in the discourse of politicians belonging to the Da‘wa Party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2010). The Kurdish Issue in Iraq: A View from Baghdad at the Close of the Maliki Premiership,

  The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, vol. 34, nr. 1

   

  .The Fletcher School, Tufts University.s. 77-94.As violence in Iraq has subsided since 2007, the “Kurdish issue” has reemerged as one of the greatest threats to future stability in Iraq. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2010). A Responsible End? . Charlottesville, VA, Just World Books. 302 sider. Visser analyserer irakisk politikk og USAs engasjement og rolle i Iraks innenrikspolitikk.
• Visser, Reidar (2010). Baghdad’s Phantom Power-Sharing Plan. Foreign Affairs , 3. desember
• Visser, Reidar (2010). Social Complexity and National Identity in Hanna Batatu's Scholarship on Iraq,

  in Chris Toensing and Mimi kirk (ed.) Uncovering Iraq: Trajectories of Disintegration and Transformation

  .Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press.s. .This book chapter traces Hanna Batatu's Scholarship on Iraq and pays special attention to social complexity and national identity. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2010). The territorial aspect of sectarianism in Iraq,

  i International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 4 (3)

  .Intellect.s. 295-304.This article examines the territorial aspect of sectarian relations in Iraq. The main argument is that such a territorial component is largely missing in Iraq and that historically, there have been very few attempts to connect sectarian identity in Iraq to specific, more restricted territories of the country. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2010). Three’s a crowd. The National, 18. februar
• Visser, Reidar (2010). Blacklisted in Baghdad. Can Washington Fix Iraq’s Election Crisis? . Foreign Affairs, 27. januar
• Visser, Reidar (2009). Europeisk Irak-politikk,

  i Rieker, Pernille og Walter Emanuel Carlsnæs [red.] Nye utfordringer for europeisk sikkerhetspolitikk. Aktører, instrumenter og operasjoner

  . Oslo, Universitetsforlaget.s. 207-216.Kapittelet drøfter europeisk Irak-politikk på ett utvalgt område: Europas overordnede syn på Irak som en politisk enhet og dens levedyktighet. [url]
• Thune, Henrik , Reidar Visser, Hassan al-Bazzaz, Dhiaa al-Bakkaa et al (2009). More than «Shiites» and «Sunnis» How a Post-Sectarian Strategy Can Change the Logic and Facilitate Sustainable Political Reform in Iraq. Oslo, NUPI. 32 sider. A Report by Iraqi Academics and Professionals, Prepared in Cooperation with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).
• Visser, Reidar (2009). Proto-political conceptions of ‘Iraq’ in late Ottoman times,

  International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Volume 3, Number 2

  .Intellect Ltd..s. 143-154.This article criticizes the so-called ‘artificiality paradigm’ concerning the emergence of the modern state on Iraq, according to which the kingdom of Iraq that came into being in 1921 was nothing but a random collection of Ottoman provinces that had little in common. On the basis of documents from the late Ottoman period, the article shows that the opposite appears to be the case. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2009). New Non-State Players and Implications for Regional Security: The Case of the Shiite Religious Establishment of Iraq,

  SAIS Review vol. 29, no.2 (Summer-Fall 2009)

  .The Johns Hopkins University Press.s. 11-20.The main argument outlined in this article is that the Shiite religious establishment in Iraq remains reluctant in its interactions with state institutions, and continues to fear that its transnational character and unique legitimacy worldwide could become compromised by too close an association with the temporal governments of individual countries. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2009). Farlig Irak-politikk. Dagens Næringsliv, 7. juli
• Visser, Reidar (2009). Identity carved. The National, 10. september
• Visser, Reidar (2008). Eurosentrisk Bagdad-beretning. bokanmeldelse, Prosa, nr. 6, s. 31-34., 31. desember
• Visser, Reidar (2008). Taming the Hegemonic Power: SCIRI and the Evolution of US Policy in Iraq,

  International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies vol. 2, no. 1

  .Bristol, Intellect.s. 31-51.This article discusses the historical development of the United States' special relationship with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), one of the Shi'ite religious parties of Iraq. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2008). The Western Imposition of Sectarianism on Iraqi Politics,

  in Arab Studies Journal vol. 16 no. 1

  .Washington DC,Georgetown University.s. 83-99. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2008). The Sadrists of Basra and the Far South of Iraq. The Most Unpredictable Political Force in the Gulf’s Oil-Belt Region?. NUPI-notat: 734. 21 sider. Notatet diskuterer interne spenninger i Sadr-bevegelsen i Irak og hvordan amerikansk politikk kan komme til å påvirke dem.
• Visser, Reidar (2008). Historical Myths of a Divided Iraq,

  i Survival, vol. 50, nr. 2

  .Abingdon,Routledge Journals.s. 95-106.Denne artikkelen kritiserer klisjeen om at Irak er en "kunstig stat" og viser hvordan dagens stat har betydelige pre-moderne røtter der Bagdad lenge har hatt en hoevdstatdsfunksjon for et multietnisk område som geografisk ligner på den moderne staten Irak. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2007). Ethnicity, Federalism and the Idea of Sectarian Citizenship in Iraq,

  in International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 89, nr. 868

  .Cambridge,Cambridge University Press.s. 809-822.The article discusses the “ethnic paradigm” that currently prevails in analyses of Iraqi history and politics. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2007). The Surge, the Shiites and Nation Building in Iraq,

  i Terrorism Monitor volume 5, Issue 17

  .Washington D.C.,The Jamestown Foundation. [url]
• Visser, Reidar , Gareth Stansfield [red.] (2007). An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?. New York, Columbia/Hurst. 288 sider. This work offers a comprehensive overview of regionalism as a political force in contemporary Iraq.
• Visser, Reidar (2007). Basra Crude: The Great Game of Iraq’s “Southern” Oil. NUPI-notat: 723. 15 sider. Dette paperet diskuterer striden om Iraks oljeressurser som er konsentrert i Basra-området.
• Visser, Reidar (2007). Statoil på ville veier i Irak. Dagbladet, 14. juni
• Visser, Reidar (2007). Other People's Maps,

  The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2007
  http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=215618

   

   

   

  .Paralleller mellom amerikanske partisjonsplaner for Irak etter 2003 og Sykes-Picot-avtalen fra Den første verdenskrig. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2007). Basra, the Reluctant Seat of Shiastan,

  Middle East Report , nr. 242, vol. 37, no. 1, spring 2007

  http://www.merip.org/mer/mer242/visser.html

   

   

  .s. 23-28.Om hvorfor folk i Basra er motvillige mot å bli hovedstad for en sjiamuslimsk føderal enhet. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2006). Osmanli eyalet sinirlari, Sii federalizmi ve Iraktaki enerji anlasmazligi,

  Stratejik Analiz

  Engelsk tekst tilgjengelig på: http://www.historiae.org/vilayet.asp

  Tyrkisk tekst tilgjengelig på:

  http://www.historiae.org/documents/Ottoman.pdf

  .s. 83-90. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2006). Sentralisme i Irak: en overlevning fra mandatperioden?,

  Babylon: tidsskrift om Midt-Østen og Nord-Afrika, vol. 4, nr. 1

  Engelsk tekst tilgjengelig på:

  http://www.historiae.org/Maliki.asp

  .s. 28-35. [url]
• Visser, Reidar (2006). Sistani, the United States and Politics in Iraq: From Quietism to Machiavellianism?. NUPI-notat: 700. 37 sider. Diskuterer hvordan man skal tolke Storayatollah Ali al-Sistanis politiske syn og hensikter, med referanse til Iraks fremtid.
• Visser, Reidar (2005). Basra, the Failed Gulf State . Berlin, LIT Verlag. 256 sider. Boken gir en analyse av et konkret eksempel på separatisme i Sør-Irak og på regionens plass i spørsmålet om Iraks territorielle integritet.
• Visser, Reidar (2005). Shi'i Separatism in Iraq.: Internet Reverie or Real Constitutional Challenge?. NUPI-notat: 686. 18 sider. Tar for seg sjiamuslimsk mobilisering i Irak, med særlig fokus på hvilken rolle elektroniske hjelpemidler spiller.
• Visser, Reidar (2004). Shi'i Perspectives on a Federal Iraq: Territory, Community and Ideology in Conceptions of a New Polity,

  In Daniel Heradstveit and Helge Hveem (eds.) Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy and Development.

  .Aldershot,Ashgate.s. 125-166.En anayse av mangfoldet i sjiamuslimsk tenkning om føderalisme i Irak. [url]