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  • The Kurds in the Middle East

    Enduring Problems and New Dynamics

    by Massoud Dryaz, Barzoo Eliassi, Cengiz Gunes, Ahmad Hamza, Ekrem Karakoc, Janroj Keles, Sean Lee, Carol Prunhuber, Wladimir Wilgenburg, Veli Yadirgi, Ozum Yesiltas, Peshawa A. Muhammed, Alam N. Noory, H. Ege Ozen, Vera Eccarius-Kelly ...
    Series series Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations
    While dramatic changes taking place in the Middle East offer important opportunities to the Kurdish century-long struggle for recognition, serious obstacles seem to keep reemerging every time the Kurds anywhere make progress. The large Kurdish geography, extending from western Iran to near the eastern Mediterranean, and a century of repression and denial have engendered various Kurdish groups with ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies

    Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field

    by Bahar Baser, Mari Toivanen, Begum Zorlu, Yasin Duman, Polat Alpman, Demet Arpacik, Lana Askari0, Marlies Casier1, Semih Celik2, Joost Jongerden3, Jowan Mahmod4, Yesim Mutlu5, Francis O’Connor6, Thomas Schmidinger7, Marlene Schäfers8, Yasemin Gulsum Acar9, Ozden Melis Ulug0, Marc Sinan Winrow1, Vera Eccarius-Kelly2 ...
    Series series Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations
    This edited volume presents thirteen contributions that reflect upon the practical, ethical, theoretical and methodological challenges that researchers face when conducting fieldwork in settings that are characterized with deteriorating security situations, increasing state control and conflicting inter-ethnic relations. More precisely, they shed light to the intricacies of conducting fieldwork on ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Militant Kurds

    A Dual Strategy for Freedom

    by Vera Eccarius-Kelly ...
    Series series PSI Guides to Terrorists, Insurgents, and Armed Groups
    This extensive examination of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and the EU focuses on the history and development of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and its impact on transnational security, human rights, and democratization.The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom explores the complexity of the 30-year guerrilla war of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) against the Turkish ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Kurdish Autonomy and U.S. Foreign Policy

    Continuity and Change

    Edited by Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Michael Gunter ...
    This book evaluates U.S. foreign policy patterns towards Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the first section of the collection, U.S. foreign policy approaches are examined by comparing multiple U.S. administrations and their responses to Kurdish demands for autonomy. While Kurds have been used to advance particular policy interests, several contributors ... Read more

    $102.09 USD

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    Women Fight the Islamic State

    by Meredith Tax ...
    A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders.A Road Unforeseen recounts the dramatic, underreported history of the Rojava Kurds, whose all ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Rise of Turkey

    The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power

    by Soner Cagaptay ...
    Turkey is positioned to become the twenty-first centuryÆs first Muslim power. Based on a dynamic economy and energetic foreign policy, TurkeyÆs growing engagement with other countries has made it a key player in the newly emerging multidirectional world order. TurkeyÆs trade patterns and societal interaction with other nations have broadened and deepened dramatically in the past decade, ... Read more

    $25.95 USD

  • The New Middle East

    Protest and Revolution in the Arab World

    Edited by Fawaz A. Gerges ...
    The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011–12. While these uprisings prompted a number of cursory publications, this volume contains meticulous and thoughtful reflections on the causes, drivers and effects of these seminal events on the internal, regional and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The PKK

    Coming Down from the Mountains

    by Doctor Paul White ...
    Series series Rebels
    The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. A less-known fact, however, is that the PKK now embraces a non-violent end to the conflict, with its leader Abdullah Öcalan having ordered a ceasefire and engaging in a negotiated peace with the Ankara government. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • False Dawn

    Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East

    by Steven A. Cook ...
    Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. Egypt remains an authoritarian state, Syria and Yemen are in the midst of devastating civil wars, Libya has descended into anarchy, and the self-declared Islamic State rules a large swath of territory. Even Turkey, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Arab Uprisings Explained

    New Contentious Politics in the Middle East

    Edited by Marc Lynch ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways to survive? And what have been the lasting results of the contentious politics of 2011 and 2012? The ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question

    by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Oral Çalislar, Umut Özkirimli, Cengiz Çandar, Kilic Bugra Kanat, Hugh Pope, Gökhan Bacik, Bezen B. Coskun, Mustafa Gurbuz, Dogan Koç, H. Akin Ünver, Joshua W. Walker, Fuat Keyman, Michael M. Gunter ...
    This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people who represent the largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state have demanded autonomy ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Frontline Turkey

    The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East

    by Ezgi Basaran ...
    Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on the Syrian border - a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades.In 2011 President Erdogan promised to make a deal with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, ... Read more

    $44.59 USD