Volume 75 (2018), Edition 1-2

The Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Referendum of September 25th, 2017, initiated by the longstanding President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (elected in office from 13 June 2005 to 19 August 2015) did not serve as basis for the declaration of an...

In the post-World War II period, US policy toward the Kurds has been shaped by external factors rather than Kurdish arguments for their own autonomy or independence. While shifting strategic relations in the region present some new opportunities for...

This article will argue that the meetings between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK between 2006-2015 were employed by the Turkish state to gain advantage in the conflict they were supposed to be aimed at resolving. This appraisal of the...

History has been for long misused as a means of warfare by totalitarian, despotic and chauvi­nist regimes to demoralize the minorities. The relations between the cohabitants under such regimes usually become vassaldom of minorities to the ruling...

Prospects for Kurdish and Palestinian independence have been dimmed by geopolitics, regional imbroglios, the rise of illiberalism, and domestic politics. Yet, inevitable changes that are likely to emerge from the mayhem in the Middle East, a region...