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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Kurds"”.
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The Kurds of Syria: Towards Self-Governance
… literature on the Administration, and the Syrian Kurds who are primarily responsible for its existence. Through historical and qualitative analyses, this paper describes what set of conditions facilitated the emergence of a Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northern Syria, how the unique …
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THE ELUSIVE STATE: THE FAILURE OF IRAQI KURDS TO SECURE INDEPENDENCE
… the political structure of the Middle East. The Kurds emerged as one of the largest ethnic groups striving for independence. However, Kurdish efforts at independence failed despite periods of significant opportunity. This thesis aims to address why Iraqi Kurds have failed to establish an …
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Ethnic groups and the state : Azaris, Kurds and Baluch of Iran
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1992.
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Turkish-Kurdish Conflict: An Ethno-Symbolist Exploration of Turks' and Kurds' Territorial Homeland Claims
The conflict between ethnic minorities and nation-states has been subject to one of the most searching debates in the study of ethno-nationalism. The dominant approach among scholars is that ethnic conflicts stem from states' failure to recognize minority rights. Within the framework of this …
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Kurds Under Threat: The Role of Kurdish Transnational Networks During Peace and Conflict (2004-2017)
<p>Previous research examines impact of ethnic ties between host states and diaspora and why states and ethnic minorities in the diaspora may occasionally support violent rebel organizations in the homeland. However, these previous studies do not really consider the relationships among co-ethnic …
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The Changing Dynamics of the Perception of U.S. Foreign Policy towards Kurds in Syria: Developing Relations in Light of Ignorance, Cooperation and Desertion (2011-2020)
Kurds have played an significant role in the Syrian conflict since the 2011 crisis, mainly through their strong participation in the fight against ISIS. During the war against ISIS, the U.S. made significant gains both under President Obama and President Trump’s administrations but did not strive …
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U.S. foreign policy and Iraqi Kurdish separatism
… Iraq, focusing on U.S. policy toward the Iraqi Kurds in the latter half of the 20th century. Specifically, it examines how U.S. policy has responded to Iraqi Kurdish separatism from the post World War II period until the present. By examining U.S. foreign policy towards Iraqi Kurds, it is …
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Queer Debt: Affective Politics of Security and Intimacy in Kurdish Turkey
… surveillance and urban counterinsurgency against Kurds. As with many aspects of Kurdish identity politics in Turkey, the ways in which Kurdish queer folks are articulating, debating, and living identities are intimately and increasingly interwoven with institutions, discourses, and practices of …
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Turkish Media, the Kurdish Question and the Peace Process, 2009–2015
… period within modern Turkish history, the Kurds revolted many times, demanding their rights; but each time the state managed to suppress them violently. However, the armed wing of the Kurdish movement, the PKK, has fought against the state since 1984 and this conflict has been of great …
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Using institutions to moderate separatist tendencies : a focus on Iraqi Kurdistan
… I argue that a secessionist movement by Iraqi Kurds can best be thwarted by applying a two-pronged strategy: First, devolve enough power to the Kurds so that their rights as a minority group are protected and their desire for self-rule is fulfilled. Likewise, ensure the representation of Kurds …
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The Kurdish nationalist movement and external influences
… Influences is a historic examination of the Kurds, the Kurdish national movement, and the effects of external actors on the movement. It discussed who the Kurds are, where they are located and how many of them there are. The primary topics covered are Kurdish revolts, leaders, Kurdish …
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Kurdish Politics in the Cauldron of the Middle East: Lessons from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq from Post-Invasion 2003 to the 2017 Independence Referendum
… analysis examines the effect that the Kurds have had on the politics of Iraq, the Middle East and beyond in detail, and Kurdish politics in Iraq is treated as a case study. The research uses data from primary and secondary sources, focusing on interviews, observation and archival …
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Neither (Fully) Here Nor There: Negotiation Narratives of Nashville's Kurdish Youth
… is home to nearly fifteen thousand ethnic Kurds. They have come in four distinct groups over the course of two decades to escape the hardship and horror of brutal central government policies, some directed toward their extinction. Many of that number are young people who were infants or …
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Sectarianism in Kurdistan Region of Iraq Between Political and Theological Schism
… However, so far scholars have left out the Kurds within their studies on sectarianism. Scholars have not explicitly pointed out why they are disinterested in sectarianism among the Kurds; it might be due to the perception that the Kurds are mostly Sunnis who have an ethnic and not a …
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Art & Agency: Transforming Relationships of Power Through Art in Iraqi Kurdistan
<p>Today, the Kurds factor significantly both as a key to some of the most critical conflicts in the Middle East and also as citizens of the world interacting with a highly global, highly interconnected reality. Despite their importance, we lack a nuanced understanding of the complex and …
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The linguistic situation in Kirkuk:a sociolinguistic study
… In this town there are three main ethnic groups: Kurds, Arabs and Turkmana with some very smell minorities such as Chaldeene, Assyrians and Armenians. The languages spoken by these three ethnic groups belong to different language Family groups. In the First cart of the study the historical …
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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria
… an ideology within a regional state system where Kurds lack national representation or recognition. This ideology has manifested itself into a fractured movement where the contemporary state borders that separate the Kurdish population at large have proven to be both a limiting and a creative …
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Rebels and representation : Kurdish human rights and the limits of advocacy
… violence experienced by the Iraqi and Turkish Kurds, before proceeding to assess how this violence was represented on the global stage by the rebel organisations and their representatives. The time period assessed runs from the immediate aftermath of World War One through to the present day. …
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