Description
Book SynopsisThe book mainly analyzes the lobbying attempts of the PYD to sell its model of governance through the specific arguments with a purpose for engaging with the international powers, the US and the UK, and these countries’ responsiveness towards the PYD arguments. While analyzing the PYD’s strategies for lobbying and the responsiveness of the US and the UK, the book also considers the counter-lobbying efforts of Turkey and its potential challenges on these countries’ responsiveness towards the PYD arguments. The author argues that the responsiveness of the US and the UK towards the PYD arguments is mainly related to these countries’ policy stances and policy objectives in Syria during the civil war. In this regard, the overlapping or conflicting policy objectives between the PYD, the Turkish government, and the US and the UK play a significant role in the responsiveness of these countries towards the PYD arguments.
Trade ReviewThis well written and documented analysis lucidly unpacks the important Syrian Kurdish experience and resulting new model of Kurdish governance since the horrific civil war commenced in 2011. Recommended.
-- Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Tech University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Ideology of the Kurdish Political Movement and Its International Relations
Chapter 2 Dynamic Framing in Ethnic Lobbying
Chapter 3 Favorable Political Opportunities and the PYD Lobbying
Chapter 4 Turkish Government’s Response to PYD Lobbying: Negative Characterization and Counter-Lobbying
Chapter 5 Responsiveness Towards Normative Arguments
Chapter 6 Responsiveness Towards Strategic Arguments
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
