1st Edition
Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations Theory and Ethnic Conflict
By Hannes Černy
Copyright 2018
360 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
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Due to its primacy in explaining issues of war and peace in the international arena, the discipline of International Relations (IR) looms large in analyses of and responses to ethnic conflict in academia, politics and popular media – in particular with respect to contemporary conflicts in the Middle East. Grounded in constitutive theory, this book challenges how ethnic/ethno-nationalist... Read more
Introduction
Part One
- Explaining Ethnic and Ethno-nationalist Conflict
- Concepts, Models and Frameworks
- Beyond Groupism
Part Two
- State Formation and the Origins of Kurdish Ethno-nationalism in Turkey and Iraq
- The Parties
Part Three
- The Origins of Relations
- Iraqi Kurdistan and the PKK in the 1990s
- Iraqi Kurdistan and the PKK in the post-2003 Middle East
- Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and Turkey
- The Kurds in the War against ISIS
Conclusion
References
Biography
Hannes Černy is Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations, Central European University, and he previously taught at the universities of Hull, Exeter and Passau. His research focuses on issues of identity and sovereignty and their representation in IR scholarship.
