Introduction
PART I: SOUL SEARCHING
Chapter 1: Learning from History: Kurdish Nationalism and State-Building Efforts
Anwar Anaid
Chapter 2: New Horizons: Iraqi Federalism
Alex Danilovich
Chapter 3: Rebels without a Cause? A Historicist Analysis of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Political and Economic Development and Prospects for Independence
Nigel Greaves
Chapter 4: Erecting Buildings, Erecting a State: Public Perception of Kurdish Statehood
Umut Kuruuzum
PART II: IRAQI KURDISTAN IN MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS
Chapter 5: Oil, the Kurds and the Drive for Independence: An Ace in the Hole or Joker in the Pack?
Francis Owtram
Chapter 6: Kurdistan’s Independence and the International System of Sovereign States
Ryan D. Griffiths
Chapter 7: Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdistan Federal Region: Bonds of Friendship
Sara Salahaddin Mustafa and Sardar Aziz
Chapter 8: The Kurdish Issue on the USA Foreign Policy Agenda
Paula Pineda
Biography
Alex Danilovich lectures in Comparative Politics at the University of Kurdistan-Hawler in Iraq. He is the author of Russian-Belarusian Integration: Playing Games Behind the Kremlin Walls (Ashgate 2006) and Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together (Ashgate 2014) and is co-author of Kazakhstan: Contemporary Politics (EastBridge 2009).
