Kurds Ascending The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey

Name: Kurds Ascending The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem in Iraq and Turkey
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ISBN: 9780230112872

ISBN-10: 0230112870

ISBN-13: 9780230112872

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Michael M. Gunter, David Romano

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For the first time in their modern history, the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey at least are cautiously ascending. This is because of two major reasons. (1) In northern Iraq the two U.S. Wars against Saddam Hussein have had the fortuitous side effect of helping to create a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) . The KRG has become an island of democratic stability, peace, and burgeoning economic progress, as well as an autonomous part of a projected federal, democratic, post-Saddam-Hussein Iraq. If such an Iraq proves impossible to construct, as it well may, the KRG is positioned to become independent. Either way, the evolution of a solution to the Kurdish problem in Iraq is clear. (2) Furthermore,…

Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 5/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 179
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

David Romano is Thomas G. Strong Professor of Middle East Politics at Missouri State University, USA.



Foreword


Introduction


List of Abbreviations



Historical Overview



The Iraqi Kurds' Federalism Imperative



The Changing Dynamics in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq



After Ocalan's Capture



Turkey's EU Promise



Taming Turkey's Deep State



The Other Kurds in Iran and Syria



The KRG's Delicate Balance



Turkey's Kurdish Initiative


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index