Status of Kurds in Iraq in terms of constitutional law and national identity

• Authors: Štulajter Matúš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Recently, with regard to the Middle East, Slovak and foreign media have focused on the situation in Syria. However, equally important is political development in Iraqi Kurdistan in which plebiscite in September 2017 showed that almost 90 percent of Kurds request independent Iraqi Kurdistan. According to many indicators and claims by geopolitical analysts, the conflict between Baghdad central government and Iraqi Kurds is growing and will escalate, what will lead to an increase of Iraqi Kurdish struggles to establish a state independent of Iraq. Our study, however, wants to point out to the fact that there are also opposing trends indicating of continual centralization of Iraq and the Kurdistan integration into the Iraqi state. Based on this analysis we criticize the thesis of American geopolitical theorists such as R. Peters the emergence of an independent Kurdistan.

Keywords

EN

kurds; Kurdistan; independence; self-determination; identity

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
• Journal: Journal of Modern Science
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 3(38)
• Pages: 267-280

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Štulajter Matúš

• Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

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Identifiers

ISSN

1734-2031

DOI

10.13166/JMS/95058