TY - BOOK ID - 32076018 TI - Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East : Actors, Ideas, and Interests AU - Tugdar, Emel Elif. AU - Al, Serhun. PY - 2018 SN - 3319537156 3319537148 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Kurds KW - Politics and government. KW - Ethnology KW - Iranians KW - Middle East-Politics and governm. KW - Middle East-History. KW - Middle East—Economic conditions. KW - Peace. KW - Middle Eastern Politics. KW - History of the Middle East. KW - Middle Eastern and North African Economics. KW - Conflict Studies. KW - Coexistence, Peaceful KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - International relations KW - Disarmament KW - Peace-building KW - Security, International KW - War KW - Middle East—Politics and government. KW - Middle East—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076018 AB - This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests. As an ethnic group and a nation in the making, Kurds are not homogeneous and united but rather the Kurdish Middle East is home to various competing political groups, leaderships, ideologies, and interests. Although many existing studies focus on the Kurds and their relations with the nation-states that they populate, few studies analyze the Kurdish Middle East within its own debates, conflicts and interests from a comparative perspective across Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. This book analyzes the intra-Kurdish dynamics with historically-grounded, theoretically-informed, and conceptually-relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations. . ER -