Title: Kurdish ethnonationalism /
Authors: Entessar, Nader.
Publisher: Lynn Rienner Publishers,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Kurds Ethnic identity; Kurds Politics and government.; Middle East Politics and government.
Contents: 1. Kurdish Ethnicity: Introduction and Overview. State and Ethnicity. Kurdish Identity. Kurdish Language and Religion. Kurdish Socioeconomic Marginalization -- 2. The Kurds in Iran. A Brief Historical Review. The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad. The Formation of the Komala. After Mahabad: Kurdish Nationalism and the Pahlavi Dictatorship. The Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Republic, and the Kurds. Intra-Factional Politics in Contemporary Iranian Kurdish Groups -- 3. The Kurdish Condition in Iraq. The Kurds, the British, and the Iraqi Monarchy. Republican Iraq and the Kurds. The First Bathi Regime and the Kurds. The Non-Bathists and the Kurdish Dilemma: 1963-1968. The Second Bathi Regime and the Uprising in Kurdistan. The Kurdish Struggle After Mullah Mostafa Barzani -- 4. The "Mountain Turks": The Kurds in Turkey. Kurdish Uprisings in the Early Twentieth Century. The Growth of the Kurdish Movement and the Turkish Left. The Return to Civilian Rule: The Post-1983 Era. Human Rights Issues and the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey -- 5. International and Regional Context of Kurdish Nationalism. Iran-Iraq Relations and Gulf Security. The Iran-Iraq War and the Kurds. The Invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War, and the Kurdish Revolt -- 6. Whither Kurdistan? Kurdish Self-Determination and International Legal Principles. International Humanitarian Principles and the Kurds. Constitutional/Legal Techniques and Kurdish Integration.