Actors and Territories in Northern Iraq

These maps were designed to illustrate Arthur Quesnay and Robin Beaumont’s article, The Return of the State and Intermilitia Competition in Northern Iraq

Xavier Houdoy is Research Scholar at Noria’s South Asia Program (SAProg) and founder of its Cartographic department. A PhD candidate at the French Institute of Political Geography (Paris 8 University), his thesis deals with contemporary state dynamics in India’s North-East region, while his wider research interests question the use of space as a dimension of social and political power competition.

Nicolas Ressler is a PhD candidate at the Center for Geopolitical Research and Analysis (CRAG) – Paris 8 University, and an Associate Junior Researcher at the Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA). His research focuses on political economy in contemporary Turkey.