Kurdish Political Studies

Introduction : the Kurds as barrier or key to democratization / David Romano and Mehmet Gurses -- Turkey, Kemalism and the "deep state" / Michael Gunter -- Iraq, Arab nationalism and obstacles to democratic transition / Ozum Yesiltas -- Kurds, Persian nationalism, and Shia rule : surviving dominant nationhood in Iran / Gareth Stansfield -- The Syrian-Kurdish movements : obstacles rather than driving forces for democratization / Eva Savelsberg -- Democracy, civil war, and the Kurdish people divided between them / David T. Mason -- Communal groups, civil conflicts, and democratization in Latin America / John A. Booth -- Democracy and self-determination in the Kurdistan region of Iraq / Nicole F. Watts -- The EBB and flow of armed conflict in Turkey : an elusive peace / Gunes Tezcur -- The Iraqi Kurdish view on federalism : not just for the Kurds / David Romano -- Between a rock and hard place: the Kurdish dilemma in Iran / Nader Entessar -- The emergence of western Kurdistan and the future of Syria / Robert Lowe -- From war to democracy : transborder Kurdish conflict and democratization / Mehmet Gurses -- Ankara, Erbil, Baghdad : relations fraught with dilemmas / Ofra Bengio.

Contents: Making sense of ethnic nationalist resurgence; Structural conditions & political opportunities; Resource mobilization & rational choices; Cultural framing; Theoretical synthesis; Kurdish nationalist challenges to the Iraqi state; Kurdish nationalist challenges to the Iranian state; Conclusion

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Book I: The Kurds in the Age of Tribe & Empire: Kurdistan before the Nineteenth Century -- Ottoman Kurdistan, 1800-1850 -- Ottoman Kurdistan, 1850-1914 -- The Qajars & the Kurds -- Revolution, Nationalism & War, 1908-1918 -- Book II: Incorporating the Kurds: Redrawing the Map: the Partition of Ottoman Kurdistan -- The Kurds, Britain & Iraq -- Incorporating Turkey's Kurds -- The Kurds under Reza Shah -- Book III: Ethno-nationalism in Iran: Tribe or Ethnicity? The Mahabad Republic -- Iran: Creating a National Movement -- Subjects of the Shi'i Republic -- Book IV: Ethno-nationalism in Iraq: The Birth of a Nationalist Movement under Hashimite Rule -- The Kurds in Revolutionary Iraq -- The Kurds under the Baath, 1968-1975 -- The Road to Genocide, 1975-1988 -- Uprising & Self-rule -- Book V: Ethno-nationalism in Turkey: The Kurdish National Revival in Turkey, 1946-1979 -- The PKK & the Mass Movement -- The Kurds in Exile: Building the Nation

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