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The Kurdish Quasi-State: Development and Dependency in Post-Gulf War Iraq
Despite ongoing instability and underdevelopment in post-Saddam Iraq, some parts of the country have realized relative security and growth. The Kurdish north, once an isolated outpost for the Iraqi army and local militia, has become an internationally recognized autonomous region. In The Kurdish Quasi-State, Natali explains the nature of this transformation and how it has influenced the relationship between the Kurdistan region and Iraq’s central government. This much-needed scholarship focuses on foreign aid as helping to create and sustain the Kurdish quasi-state. It argues that the generous nature of external assistance to the Kurdistan region over time has given it new forms of legitimacy and leverage in the country. Since 2003 the Kurdistan region has gained representation in the central government and developed commercial, investment, and political ties with regional states and foreign governments.
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Iraqi Kurdistan
The Iraqi Kurds have enjoyed de facto statehood in the north of Iraq for over a decade but Intra-Kurdish fighting, military incursions by Turkey and Iran and the constant threat posed by Saddam Hussein have plagued this 'democratic experiment'. In this book, Stansfield explores the development of the Kurdish political system since 1991. He examines the difficult and often violent relations between the two dominant powers, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and their relationship with the Kurdish Regional Government in order to understand the current state of Iraqi Kurdish politics and the operation of the state.This topical in-depth study identifies the main dynamics of Iraqi Kurdish politics, analyzes the record and potential of the 'Kurdish democratic experiment', and identifies the present and future Kurdish leaders.
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“Today Stems from Yesterday”: A Kirkuk-Centric Analysis of Central Periphery Relationship of Baghdad and Iraqi Kurds
Kirkuk, the oil rich northern governorate of Iraq with symbolic meaning, has been sitting at the epicenter of inflammatory nationalist debates of Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad. The difficulty in the accommodation of different historical narratives, and thus, political objectives, has exacerbated the complexity of the problem. The Iraqi Kurds have argued that Kirkuk is their Jerusalem and have been applying “creating facts on the ground” strategy to achieve their goals. On the other hand, for Baghdad, Kirkuk has been the symbol of unity and sovereignty of Iraq. Baghdad has also concerns of the likelihood of violence if a resolution for Kirkuk is forced too soon.
These two competing approaches, in fact, not only draw the attentions to the fact of escalating tension between the Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad on the contested status of Kirkuk but also provide insights for this decades-old problematic marriage of Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad. This article, therefore, aims to present a Kirkuk-centric analysis of the history of Iraq so as to lay out the conflicting historical perspectives on Kirkuk, and endeavors to derive conclusions concerning the central periphery relationship between Baghdad and the Iraqi Kurds thorough the lens of the contested status of Kirkuk. Lastly, it intends to provide insights for the future through the evolution of Iraqi politics over the course of the 20th century.
Journal Article
Survival Strategies and Diplomatic Tools: The Kurdistan Region's Foreign Policy Outlook
The Kurds were late to the idea of nationalism in the 20th century, and when the borders were drawn in the region they became the largest stateless nation in the world, divided mainly between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. In an unlikely period when hope was fading, a Kurdistan regional government in Iraq was born as the former Iraqi regime was weakened after the first Gulf War and the subsequent no-fly zone. Two decades on, the region has become more assertive and been making many new friends, largely because of its newfound wealth, its influence in post-Saddam Iraq, and its stability when compared with the rest of Iraq. Oil has been a curse for the Kurds and Iraq as a whole, but now the Kurds appear to have found a way to use its resources for economic development, ensuring that the Kurdistan region remains stable and can establish itself as a self-governing and influential entity.
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