1 Introduction 2 Understanding De Facto States 3 The Rise of the Kurdish Liberation Movement in Iraq 4 From a Minority to a De Facto State 5 The Second Decade of Autonomy 6 State-building in the KRG 7 Conclusion
Yaniv Voller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Politics and International Relations Department at the University of Edinburgh. He has conducted and published studies on various aspects of the international politics of the Middle East, including secession, political reforms and gendered-violence.