Kurdish Autonomy and U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change

ISBN-13: 9781433168024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str.

Vera Eccarius-Kelly; Michael Gunter

Opis

The main theme is to evaluate U.S. foreign policy patterns towards Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the first section of the collection, U.S. foreign policy approaches are examined by comparing multiple U.S. administrations and their responses to Kurdish demands for autonomy.

Recenzje

"Few would dispute that the Middle East is disintegrating socially, politically, and even territorially. The Kurds, the forgotten and dismissed people of the past century, have risen to play an important role in the emerging Middle East. Whether they will survive the reshuffling of power and carve out a political space for themselves is largely a function of U.S. policy toward the region. This collection offers a timely and much-needed examination of the complex U.S.-Kurdish relations in a volatile and strategically important region." -Mehmet Gurses, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University

Spis treści

Vera Eccarius-Kelly/Michael M. Gunter: Introduction: Kurdish Autonomy and U.S. Foreign Policy - Marianna Charountaki: Non-State Actors as Agents of Foreign Policy: The Case of Kurdistan - Michael Rubin: Will the United States Ever Support Kurdish Independence? - Thomas Jeffrey Miley/Güney Yildiz: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards the Kurdish Movement Under Obama and Trump - Liam Anderson: U.S. Foreign Policy, Kirkuk, and the Kurds in Postwar Iraq: Business as Usual - Bilal A. Wahab: From Aid to Oil: Iraqi Kurdistan's Dependent Economy - Michael M. Gunter: Trump's Foreign Policy Toward the Kurds - David Romano: The Kurds' Trump Card - Vera Eccarius-Kelly: Kurdish Lobbying and Political Activism in the United States - Haluk Baran Bingöl: From Limited Partnership to Strategic Alliance: The Emerging Significance of Kurdish Para-Diplomacy in U.S. Foreign Policy - Eva Ssavelsberg: "Operation Olive Branch"-Did the U.S. Change Its Strategy Toward the YPG? - Huseyin Rasit: Imperialism, Revolution, and the Desire to Lecture the Kurds: How Should We (Not) Analyze U.S.-Kurdish Relations - Contributors - Index.

O autorze

Vera Eccarius-Kelly is Professor of Comparative Politics at Siena College in Albany, New York. She received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her numerous journal articles and contributions to edited volumes examine Kurdish diaspora activism and expressions of Kurdish nationalism. Her monograph is entitled The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom. Michael M. Gunter is Professor of Political Science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He authored ten critically acclaimed scholarly books on the Kurdish question and published dozens of journal articles and book chapters. He is also the Secretary-General of the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) in Brussels.