Marianna Charountaki

The Kurds and US Foreign Policy

International Relations in the Middle East since 1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US-Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between international powers and weaker non-state entities, the author analyses the existence of an interactive US relationship with the Kurds of Iraq. Drawing on governmental archives and interviews with political figures both in Northern Iraq and the United States, the author places the case study within a broader International Relations context. The conceptual framework centres on the inter-relations between actors (both state and non-state) and structures of material and ideational kinds, while the detailed survey and analysis of US-Kurdish relations, in their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics, forms the empirical core of the study. Stressing the intertwining of domestic and foreign policy as part of the same set of dynamics, the case study explains the emergence of the interactive and institutionalized US relationship with the Kurds of Iraq that has brought about the formation, within an Iraqi framework, of an undeclared US official Kurdish policy in the post-Saddam era. Filling a gap in the literature on US-Kurdish relations as well as the broader topic of International Relations, this book will be of great interest to those in the areas of International Relations, Middle Eastern and Kurdish Politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780415587532
• ISBN-10: 0415587530
• Artikelnr.: 32099822

Autorenporträt

Marianna Charountaki completed her PhD in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Now an independent scholar working in Athens, Greece, her research interests range from International Relations and foreign policy analysis to the international relations of the broader Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Multi
faceted Nature of the Kurdish Issue 3. US Foreign Policy: Structures, Determinants and Pressures 4. US Foreign Policy Towards the Kurds, 1945
1990 5. US Foreign Policy Toward the Kurds, 1991
2003 6. US and the Kurds in the Post
Saddam Era (2003
2009) 7. Conceptual Implications and General Conclusions