A Century of Kurdish Politics: Citizenship, Statehood and Diplomacy

ISBN-13: 9780367236717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 110 str.

Guneş Murat Tezcur

Opis

This comprehensive book addresses the Kurdish question in its centennial year with a fresh analytical lens, to demonstrate that the study of Kurdish politics has developed beyond a narrow focus on the state-minority antagonism. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.

Spis treści

1. A Century of the Kurdish Question: Organizational Rivalries, Diplomacy, and Cross-Ethnic Coalitions  2. The First World War, the End of the Ottoman Empire, and Question of Kurdish Statehood: A ‘Missed’ Opportunity?  3. Foreign Support, Miscalculation, and Conflict Escalation: Iraqi Kurdish Self-Determination in Perspective  4. Explaining Turkey’s Reaction to the September 2017 Independence Referendum in the KRG: Final Divorce or Relationship Reset?  5. Governing Kurdistan: Self-Administration in the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq and the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria  6. Engaging Diasporas in Development and State-Building: The Role of the Kurdish Diaspora and Returnees in Rebuilding the Kurdistan Region of Iraq  7. The HDP, the AKP and the Battle for Turkish Democracy

O autorze

Güneş Murat Tezcür is the Jalal Talabani Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida, USA. He also directs the Kurdish Political Studies Program, the first and only academic entity dedicated to the study of Kurdish issues in the United States. He is a social scientist studying democratization, political violence, and politics of identity with a focus on Iran, Turkey, and Kurdish lands.