Farhad H. A. Mamshai

Welcome to My Academic Profile Page

I am Farhad Hassan Abdullah Mamshai, a Lecturer at the University of Sulaimani in Iraqi Kurdistan. Currently, I am a doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech (VT), residing in Virginia, United States. My research focuses on Environmental Security in Iraq. I hold a Master’s degree in Strategic and Defence Studies (MSDS) from the University of Malaya (UM). At the University of Sulaimani, I teach in the College of Political Sciences, Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR).

Publications: 

Journal Articles.

● Mamshai, Farhad Hassan Abdullah. “Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier”: Security and Communal Implications for Iraq." (2023). https://communitychange.ipg.vt.edu/articles/10.21061/cc.v4i2.a.41

● Farhad Mamshai. (2024). The Politics of Environment in the Kurdistan Region: Unveiling the Crisis of Deforestation and Forest Fires. Iraq Climate Change Center. Available on: https://iraqclimatechange.org/the-politics-of-environment-in-the-kurdistan-region-unveiling-the-crisis-of-deforestation-and-forest-fires/

● Hama, Hawre Hasan, Farhad Hassan Abdullah Mamshai, and Faruq Abdul Mawlood. "Securitization of the 2017 Kurdistan independence referendum." Ethnicities (2024): 14687968241290799.

● Mamshai, Farhad Hassan Abdullah. "Party corruption in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Context and implications." Digest of Middle East Studies 31, no. 1 (2022): 25-42.

● Abdullah, Farhad Hassan. "The political system in Iraqi Kurdistan: party rivalries and future perspectives." Asian Affairs 49, no. 4 (2018): 606-624.

● Abdullah, Farhad Hassan. "PUK–KDP Conflict: Future Kurdish Status in Kirkuk." Jadavpur Journal of International Relations 22, no. 2 (2018): 107-126.

● Abdullah, Farhad Hassan. "The Role of Social Network Platform in Egyptian’s Political Upheaval in January 2011." International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies 3, no. 2 (2016): 94.

● Hassan Abdullah, Farhad. "Resource Mobilization Theory: Political Movement in Egypt." Iranian Sociological Review 8, no. 2 (2018): 1-12.

● Hasan Hama, Hawre, and Farhad Hassan Abdulla. "Kurdistan’s referendum: the withdrawal of the Kurdish Forces in Kirkuk." Asian Affairs 50, no. 3 (2019): 364-383.

● Abdullah, Farhad Hassan, and Hawre Hasan Hama. "The nature of the political system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq." Asian Journal of Comparative Politics 5, no. 3 (2020): 300-315.

● Hama, Hawre Hasan, Farhad Hassan Abdulla, and Dastan Jasim. "One battle, two narratives? Rudaw’s framing during the 2017 conflict over the disputed territories of the Kurdistan Region and Iraq." The Journal of International Communication (2018): 1-24.

● Abdullah, Farhad Hassan. " PUK – Gorran Relations in Post Kurdish Referendum: A New Phase of Conflict in Green Zone" Mashreq Politics and Culture Journal 3, no. 6 (2018).

● Abdullah, Farhad Hassan. "Revolution in Egypt: Political Movements and Mobilisation of Resources." Journal of Insight on Africa (2019).

● Hama, Hawre Hasan, and Farhad Hassan Abdullah. "Political Parties and the Political System in Iraqi Kurdistan." Journal of Asian and African Studies (2020):

● Abdullah, Farhad Hassan, and Hawre Hasan Hama. Minority Representation and Reserved Legislative Seats in Iraqi Kurdistan. Journal Contemporary Review of the Middle East.

Policy papers in Kurdish. 

Primarily Published in the Kurdistan Conflict and Crisis Research Center (KCCRC):

All these works are available as part of the KCCRC archival dataset and can be accessed through personal contact.

1. Turkmen in Iraq: The Marginalization of Internal or External Proxy

2. Kurdistan Region in Front of the Domination of the Turkish Occupation

3. The Administration Crisis in Kirkuk: Future Scenarios

4. Independence of Catalonia and Kurdistan Region: A Comparative Study

5. Kurds and Sunnis in the Iraqi Political Scene After the 2018 Elections

6. The Future of Relations Between the PUK and the KDP After the Failure of the Referendum

7. Agreement Between the PUK and the Movement for Change: The Future of Minority Parties in the Kurdistan Region

8. Political and Religious Role of Moqtada al-Sadr (2003–2016)

9. Nuclear Terrorism: ISIS's Ambition to Acquire WMDs

10. ISIS and the Political Utilization of Social Media

11. Federation for Syria: Problem or Solution?

12. Future Governance in the Kurdistan Region: Activating Administrative Decentralization

13. NATO–Turkey–Russia Conflict: The Failure of Collective Security

14. Turkey–Russia Conflict: Economic Mass Destruction

15. Search for the State: Rojava Between the U.S. and Russia

16. Future of the Sunni Fighters Within ISIS in Iraq

17. India–Pakistan Conflict: The Role of Terrorist Groups and WMDs

18. Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Syria and Its Implications for the Region

19. State Terrorism: The Killing of Khashoggi as a Case Study

20. Future Options for Rojava After the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces in Syria

21. Political Opposition Project in the Kurdistan Region and Its Impediments

22. Dismissing Abdul Mahdi and Removing the Iraqi Cabinet: Implications for the Kurdistan Region

23. Turkish Invasion of Rojava: Options for the Kurdistan Region

24. Seeking a State: Kurds Between the U.S. and Russia in Syria

25. Future of Power in the Kurdistan Region: Activating the Decentralization of Power

26. The Role of Marjaeya in Politics: The Fight Against ISIS

27. Executive and Legislature: Dissolving the Iraqi Cabinet Over Various Periods

28. The Nature of Political Parties in the Kurdistan Region

29. U.S.–Taliban Agreement: Possibilities and Obstacles

30. Negotiation with Terrorism

31. Fiscal and Administrative Decentralization in the Kurdistan Region

My contact email: farhad.abdul@univsul.edu.iq

I thought several models including:

1. Political Systems 

2. Security Studies 

3- International Security

4- Strategy and National Security 

5- Insurgency, Terrorism, and Political Violence

My research interests focus on;

1. Environmental Security 

2- Governance

3- Iraqi & Kurdish Politics

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