Kurdish autonomy and U.S. foreign policy : continuity and change /

Developments in Iranian Kurdish areas are indirectly evaluated in relation to the Kurdistan Independence Referendum and the Islamic Republic's ferocious repression of Kurdish movements (predominantly driven by the theocratic regime's fear of broader domestic opposition). The chapter contri...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Eccarius-Kelly, Vera (Editor), Gunter, Michael M. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, [2020]
Subjects:	United States > Foreign relations > Kurdistan. Kurdistan > Foreign relations > United States. Kurds > Politics and government.

Table of Contents:

U.S. foreign policy and the Kurds
Non-state actors as agents of foreign policy : the case of Kurdistan / Marianna Charountaki
Will the United States ever support Kurdish independence? / Michael Rubin
U.S. foreign policy towards the Kurdish movement under Obama and Trump / Thomas Jeffrey Miley and Güney Yildiz
U.S. foreign policy and the Kurdistan region
U.S. foreign policy, Kirkuk, and the Kurds in post-war Iraq : business as usual / Liam Anderson
From aid to oil : the KRG's dependent economy / Bilal Wahab
Trump's foreign policy toward the Kurds / Michael M. Gunter
The Kurds' trump card / David Romano
Kurdish lobbying, para-diplomacy and Rojava
Kurdish lobbying and political activism in the United States / Vera Eccarius-Kelly
From limited partnership to strategic alliance : the emerging significance of Kurdish para-diplomacy in U.S. foreign policy / H. Baran Bingöl
"Operation Olive Branch" : did the U.S. change its strategy toward the YPG? / Eva Savelsberg
Imperialism, revolution, and the desire to lecture the Kurds : how should we (not) analyze U.S.-Kurdish relations / Huseyin Rasit.