Alex Danilovich lectures in Comparative Politics at the University of Kurdistan-Hawler in Iraq. He is the author of Russian-Belarusian Integration: Playing Games Behind the Kremlin Walls (Ashgate 2006) and Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together (Ashgate 2014) and is co-author of Kazakhstan: Contemporary Politics (EastBridge 2009).

• IntroductionPART I: SOUL SEARCHINGChapter 1: Learning from History: Kurdish Nationalism and State-Building EffortsChapter 2: New Horizons: Iraqi FederalismChapter 3: Rebels without a Cause? A Historicist Analysis of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Political and Economic Development and Prospects for IndependenceChapter 4: Erecting Buildings, Erecting a State: Public Perception of Kurdish StatehoodPART II: IRAQI KURDISTAN IN MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICSChapter 5: Oil, the Kurds and the Drive for Independence: An Ace in the Hole or Joker in the Pack?Chapter 6: Kurdistan’s Independence and the International System of Sovereign StatesChapter 7: Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdistan Federal Region: Bonds of FriendshipChapter 8: The Kurdish Issue on the USA Foreign Policy AgendaIndex

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Alex Danilovich lectures in Comparative Politics at the University of Kurdistan-Hawler in Iraq. He is the author of Russian-Belarusian Integration: Playing Games Behind the Kremlin Walls (Ashgate 2006) and Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together (Ashgate 2014) and is co-author of Kazakhstan: Contemporary Politics (EastBridge 2009).

• IntroductionPART I: SOUL SEARCHINGChapter 1: Learning from History: Kurdish Nationalism and State-Building EffortsChapter 2: New Horizons: Iraqi FederalismChapter 3: Rebels without a Cause? A Historicist Analysis of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Political and Economic Development and Prospects for IndependenceChapter 4: Erecting Buildings, Erecting a State: Public Perception of Kurdish StatehoodPART II: IRAQI KURDISTAN IN MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICSChapter 5: Oil, the Kurds and the Drive for Independence: An Ace in the Hole or Joker in the Pack?Chapter 6: Kurdistan’s Independence and the International System of Sovereign StatesChapter 7: Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdistan Federal Region: Bonds of FriendshipChapter 8: The Kurdish Issue on the USA Foreign Policy AgendaIndex

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Alex Danilovich lectures in Comparative Politics at the University of Kurdistan-Hawler in Iraq. He is the author of Russian-Belarusian Integration: Playing Games Behind the Kremlin Walls (Ashgate 2006) and Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together (Ashgate 2014) and is co-author of Kazakhstan: Contemporary Politics (EastBridge 2009).

• IntroductionPART I: SOUL SEARCHINGChapter 1: Learning from History: Kurdish Nationalism and State-Building EffortsChapter 2: New Horizons: Iraqi FederalismChapter 3: Rebels without a Cause? A Historicist Analysis of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Political and Economic Development and Prospects for IndependenceChapter 4: Erecting Buildings, Erecting a State: Public Perception of Kurdish StatehoodPART II: IRAQI KURDISTAN IN MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICSChapter 5: Oil, the Kurds and the Drive for Independence: An Ace in the Hole or Joker in the Pack?Chapter 6: Kurdistan’s Independence and the International System of Sovereign StatesChapter 7: Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdistan Federal Region: Bonds of FriendshipChapter 8: The Kurdish Issue on the USA Foreign Policy AgendaIndex

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