Iraqi Kurds and nation-building / Mohammed M.A. Ahmed (Hama Jamal).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Mohammed M. A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurds--Iraq--Politics and government--21st century.

Kurds.

Kurds--Iraq--Government relations.

Politics and government.

Kurdistan--Politics and government--21st century.

Kurdistan.

Kurdistan--Foreign relations.

Kurdistan--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

xviii, 274 pages : map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

This book focuses attention on how the Kurds built the main pillars of a quasi-democratic autonomous federal entity in northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), despite considerable internal and external challenges. Shedding light on how Iraqi Kurds used the opportunity created by the aftermath of the 1991 Kurdish uprising to hold elections and form a parliament, and on how Kurdish officials later consolidated their regional government following the 2003 Iraq War, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building considers the political and economic shortfalls of the government and the obstacles facing Iraqi Kurds in a country still struggling to emerge from nine years of internal conflict and foreign occupation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Emergence of Kurdistan regional government

Kurdish leadership style and internal disputes

Political and diplomatic evolution

Regional economic development and its negative fallout

Evolving ties with the U.S. and Europe

Democracy or lack of it

Peshmarga and disputed Kurdish territories

Military standoff in disputed areas

Resistance to Ankara's pressure to fight the PKK

Shift in Turkey's narrative towards Iraqi Kurds

Future prospects of KRG.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137034076

1137034076

OCLC:

783144370