TY - BOOK AU - Lowe,Robert AU - Stansfield,Gareth R.V. ED - Royal Institute of International Affairs. TI - The Kurdish policy imperative SN - 9781862031982 (hardback) AV - DS59.K86 K864 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - London, Washington, D.C. PB - Chatham House, Brookings Institution (distributor) KW - Kurds KW - Politics and government KW - Ethnic identity KW - Nationalism KW - Kurdistan KW - Turkey KW - Ethnic relations KW - Iraq KW - Syria N1 - Based on a conference on "The Kurdish Policy Initiative" held at Chatham House in December 2007; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield -- The relationships between states and non-state peoples : a comparative view of the Kurds in Iraq / Stefan Wolff -- Denied a state, winning a region : comparing Kurdish nationalism after 1918 and 2003 / Robert Olson -- The Kurds and contemporary regional political dynamics / David Romano -- Turkey's Kurdish challenge / Kemal Kirisci -- Turkish responses to Kurdish identity politics : recent development in historical perspectives / Janet Klein -- The missinig moderate : legitimacy resources and pro-Kurdish party politics in Turkey / Nicole F. Watts -- The 'liberalization' of Turkish policy toward the Kurdish language : the influence of external actors / Clemence Scalbert-Yucel -- From civil war to calculated compromise : the unification of the Kurdistan regional government in Iraq / Gareth Stansfield -- Internationalizing Iraq's constitutional dilemma / Liam Anderson -- the serhildan and the Kurdish national story in Syria / Robert Lowe -- Kurdish political mobilization in Iran / Hashem Ahmadzadeh -- Prospects for the Kurdish future in Iraq and Turkey / Michael M. Gunter ER -