The Kurds in a New Middle East: The Changing Geopolitics of a Regional Conflict
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations 4
Preface 6
Chapter 1: The Kurdish Resurgence in a Changing Middle East 8
1.1 - A Brief history of the Kurdish Question 12
1.2 - The Re-emergence of Kurdish Nationalism during the 1960s 17
1.3 - The Geopolitics of the Middle East and the Kurdish Question 23
Chapter 2: The Kurdish Conflict in Iraq: Towards a Sustainable Solution 37
2.1 - Historical Overview of the Kurdish Conflict in Iraq 382.2 - The Consolidation of Kurdish Autonomy and the KRI 46
2.3 - The KRI's Challenges 52
Chapter 3: Turkey's Kurdish Conflict: The Sudden Reversal of Gradual Progress 64
3.1 - Historical Overview of Turkey's Kurdish Conflict 66
3.2 - Transformation in the conflict and Turkey's democratic openings 72
3.3 - A New Violent Phase in the Conflict 79Chapter 4: The Syrian Conflict and Kurdish Ascendency 93
4.1 - The Kurdish conflict in Syria: background and the main developments 95
4.2 - The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS) 102
4.3 - The Challenges facing the DFNS 108
Chapter 5: The Transformation of Iran's Kurdish Conflict 119
5.1 - Historical Overview of Iran's Kurdish Conflict 120
5.2 The re-emergence of Kurdish political activism in Iran during 2000s and 2010s 1255.3 The factors behind the revival of Iran's Kurdish movement and its future prospects 130
Chapter 6: Kurdish Prospects in a Volatile Middle East 145
6.1 Opposition to Kurdish Aspirations 148
6.2 Kurdish Prospects in the Middle East 155
Index 171