Al Sharq Strategic Research | 21 September 2017
What are the Main Drivers Behind the Kurdistan Regional Government's Decision to Hold an Independence Referendum on September 25, 2017?
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 21 September 2017
What are the Main Drivers Behind the Kurdistan Regional Government's Decision to Hold an Independence Referendum on September 25, 2017?
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 21 September 2017
What are the Main Drivers behind the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Decision to Hold its Independence Referendum on September 25, 2017?
Tamer Badawi | 21 September 2017
[stextbox id='info'] Introduction: The referendum on the independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) that is scheduled to be held on September 25th, 2017 has generated much discussions in and outside of Iraq and the KRG. Thus [...]
Galip Dalay | 13 September 2017
Can common concerns about US policies in the Middle East and Kurdish statehood ambitions bring Turkey and Iran together? Turkish-Iranian relations have always defied any general characterisation. The two neighbours have never had a straightforward [...]
Basheer Nafi | 11 September 2017
In one of his more provocative appearances, Devlet Bahceli, chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in Turkey, said recently that the Kurdish Regional Government's referendum plans might be reason enough for Turkey to declare war on [...]
Galip Dalay | 06 September 2017
Operating in Exile Has Hindered Their Effectiveness One of the more notable developments from the fight against the Islamic State (or ISIS) has been the emergence of a Kurdish public sphere in the Middle East. Since U.S. coalition [...]
Galip Dalay | 23 August 2017
By adopting a novel approach to fragmentation in the Middle East and North Africa, regional players may see the collapse of state unity as an opportunity for a new interconnected order It is now a [...]
Basheer Nafi | 23 July 2017
The Arab League's silence over the Gulf crisis and inability to keep the GCC from splitting reflects a post-WWI regional order in its final throes If seen as a purely Arab affair, there is no [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 23 July 2017
It's not likely that the defeat of Daesh in Mosul is going to mean the end of the group itself. So long as the political conditions for radicalism and sympathy for Daesh's ideology exists, territorial [...]
