Kurdish Politics in the Middle East

Nader Entessar is professor and chair of the department of political science and criminal justice at the University of South Alabama. He is co-editor of Iran and the Modern World and Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf.

Nader Entessar is an internationally recognized analyst of Middle East politics and a trailblazer in establishing Kurdish studies as an integral part of Middle East studies, especially the development of Kurdish nationalism during the twentieth century. He sustains this reputation in this revised and greatly expanded edition of Kurdish Ethnonationalism, adding important new analyses of the significant impact of the Kurdish nationalist movements on Middle East politics since the 1999 Gulf War and, especially, since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in March 2003. Entessar's analytical acumen and insights are important for scholars, area specialists, think-tank analysts, diplomats, military and intelligent experts and decision makers—a must read.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Chapter 1. The Kurds: Introduction and OverviewChapter 3 Chapter 2. The Kurdish Dilemma in IranChapter 4 Chapter 3. Iraqi Kurds: From Victims to AutonomyChapter 5 Chapter 4. The Evolution of Kurdish Issues in TurkeyChapter 6 Chapter 5. Kurdish Politics in Regional ContextChapter 7 Chapter 6. Autonomy of Independence? Dilemmas of Kurdish Politics in the Twenty-First Century