Kurdish identity
Subtitle: human rights and political status
By: edited by Charles G. MacDonald and Carole A. O'Leary.
Contributors: MacDonald, Charles G.; O'Leary, Carole.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813030845
Subjects: Kurds -- Ethnic identity; Kurds -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Kurdish identity: an introduction / Charles G. MacDonald; title: 2. Perspective of Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government; title: 3. Perspective of Michael Van Dusen, Deputy Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; title: 4. Perspective of Shafiq Qazzaz, Minister of Humanitarian Assistance and Cooperation, Kurdistan Regional Government; title: 5. Perspective of Abdul Aziz Said, Director, Center for Global Peace, American University; title: 6. Öcalan's capture as a catalyst for democracy and Turkey's candidacy for accession to the European Union / Michael M. Gunter; title: 7. Five stages of the construction of Kurdish nationalism in Turkey / M. Hakan Yavuz; title: 8. Perspectives on conflict prevention and reconciliation / Gülistan Gürbey; title: 9. Turkey-Iran relations and the Kurdish question, 1997-2001 / Robert W. Olson; title: 10. United States policies and the Iraqi Kurds / David L. Mack; title: 11. The Iraqi State, the opposition, and the road to reconciliation / Hanna Y. Freij; title: 12. Political impact of sanctions in Iraqi Kurdistan / Rend Rahim Francke; title: 13. Ethnic cleansing in Iraqi Kurdistan / Nouri Talabani; title: 14. Iraqi Kurdistan: The humanitarian program / Stafford Clarry; title: - 15. Ottoman lessons for a federal Iran / Ernest Tucker; title: 16. Federalism as a model for democracy / Ali Babakhan; title: 17. Communalism and the future of Iraq / Carole A. O'Leary; title: 18. Kurdish nationalism in Iran / Charles G. MacDonald; title: 19. Competing national identities: the Kurdish conundrum in Iran / Nader Entessar; title: 20. The human rights of Kurds in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Elahé Sharifpour Hicks and Neil Hicks; title: 21. Economic transition of Kurdish nationalism in Iran / Farideh Koohi-Kamali; title: 22. The Arab World and the Kurds / Michael Collins Dunn; title: 23. The European perspective / Kendal Nezan; title: 24. An American diplomat's perspective / Francis J. Ricciardone; title: 25. The Kurdish identity: Kurds in a democratic Iraq and beyond  / Carole A. O'Leary and Charles G. MacDonald.