Brendan O'Leary

Professor

Political Science

215.573.0645

boleary@sas.upenn.edu

In the academic year 2009-10 Professor O'Leary was on leave. He was working as the Power Sharing Expert in the Standby Team of the Mediation Support Unit at the Dept of Political Affairs in the United Nations.

Rupert Taylor has just published a book, entitled Consociational Theory: McGarry and O'Leary and the Northern Ireland Conflict, Routledge, 2009, a symposium of critical and friendly chapters, devoted to Professor O'Leary's work with his colleague Professor John McGarry. The collection is preceded by a lengthy statement by McGarry and O'Leary, and concludes with their reply to the 16 contributions which discuss their work.

Education:

London School of Economics, Ph.D. 1988
Oxford University, B.A. 1981

Languages:

French

Research Interests:

Power-sharing systems; Nationalism; National, Ethnic and Communal Violence; Democracy, Democratization, Electoral systems

Overseas Research Experience:

Ireland, U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Somalia, Sudan, South Africa, Iraq (Kurdistan), Jordan, Israel, Turkey, India, Singapore, Indonesia

Recent Publications:
  • 2009. How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
  • 2009. The Kurdistan Region: Invest in the Future. (London & Washington, DC: Newsdesk Publications, 2nd Edition), ed.
  • 2007. Terror, Insurgency and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), ed. with M. Heiberg and J. Tirman.
  • 2005. The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), ed. with J. McGarry and K. Salih.
Courses:

The Politics of Iraq and Sudan

Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places