Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations: Theory and Ethnic Conflict

Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations: Theory and Ethnic Conflict

by Hannes Cerny
Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations: Theory and Ethnic Conflict

Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and International Relations: Theory and Ethnic Conflict

by Hannes Cerny

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Overview

Due to its primacy in explaining issues of war and peace in the international arena, the discipline of International Relations (IR) looms large in analyses of and responses to ethnic conflict in academia, politics and popular media – in particular with respect to contemporary conflicts in the Middle East.

Grounded in constitutive theory, this book challenges how ethnic/ethno-nationalist conflict is represented in explanatory IR by deconstructing its most prominent state-centric models, frameworks and analytical concepts. As much a critique of contemporary scholarship on Kurdish ethno-nationalism as a detailed analysis of the most prominent Kurdish ethno-nationalist actors, the book provides the first in-depth investigation into the relations between the PKK and the main Iraqi Kurdish political parties from the 1980s to the present. It situates this inquiry within the wider context of the ambiguous political status of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, its relations with Turkey, and the role Kurdish parties and insurgencies play in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Appreciating these complex dynamics and how they are portrayed in Western scholarship is essential for understanding current developments in the Iraqi and Syrian theatres of war, and for making sense of discussions about a potential independent Kurdish state to emerge in Iraq.

Iraqi Kurdistan provides a comprehensive and critical discussion of the state-centric and essentialising epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies of the three main paradigms of explanatory IR, as well as their analytical models and frameworks on ethnic identity and conflict in the Middle East and beyond. It will therefore be a valuable resource for anyone studying ethnicity and nationalism, International Relations or Middle East Politics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367878375
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/12/2019
Series: Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hannes Černy is Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations, Central European University, and he previously taught at the universities of Hull, Exeter and Passau. His research focuses on issues of identity and sovereignty and their representation in IR scholarship.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One

  1. Explaining Ethnic and Ethno-nationalist Conflict
  2. Concepts, Models and Frameworks
  3. Beyond Groupism

Part Two

  1. State Formation and the Origins of Kurdish Ethno-nationalism in Turkey and Iraq
  2. The Parties

Part Three

  1. The Origins of Relations
  2. Iraqi Kurdistan and the PKK in the 1990s
  3. Iraqi Kurdistan and the PKK in the post-2003 Middle East
  4. Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and Turkey
  5. The Kurds in the War against ISIS

Conclusion

References

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