{"product_id":"the-geopolitics-of-turkeykurdistan-relations-9781498571630","title":"The Geopolitics of TurkeyKurdistan Relations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe main objective of this book is to understand the extent and the motives behind the shift in Turkey's foreign policy towards the Kurdistan Regional Government (hereafter the KRG) from an alternative globalist perspective, and to do so it examines a ten-year period of Turkey's foreign policy on the KRG, from 2003 to 2013. Despite the shadows casting by its history, Turkey has developed relations with the Kurdish government to the level of a strategic partnership within the last decade, following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The book identifies and analyses the factors that determine Turkey's foreign policy towards the KRG by providing a historical account of Turkey's approach towards a Kurdish polity, illuminating the extent of the shift in Turkey's foreign policy by looking at some dislocatory moves, and identifying and analyzing regional and global motives behind the TurkeyKRG rapprochement that led Turkey to abandon its traditional policy temporally towards the Kurdish Region of Ira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a well-researched account and analysis of Turkey’s evolving relationship with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq in the period 2003-2013. It examines the drivers behind Turkish policy, considers Ankara’s shift towards ‘desecuritising’ its approach, explores areas of common ground between Ankara and Erbil, and focuses on the all-important energy relationship between them. It does not simply locate the relationship in a purely bilateral or regional context, but also endeavors to explain it through a more globalist perspective. This book helps fill the gap left by the relative scarcity of literature on this under-studied but important relationship. -- William Park, King’s College\u003cbr\u003eEmploying a globalist perspective on the Kurdish problem, this book offers a different approach: The extent and the motives behind the shift in Turkey's foreign policy toward the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq. in order to analyze key turning points in Turkey's changing relations with the KRG, the book successfully frames the Kurdish question at a regional level going beyond the traditional methods of framing it within the domestic circumstances of various countries in the Middle East. -- Gokhan Bacik, Palacky University\u003cbr\u003eMany people do not quite understand Turkey’s evolving relationship with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Instead, they rely on now outdated cognitive maps of the issue. Dr. Demir’s book offers an engaging and very important corrective to such views. Although Turkey’s relationship with Iraqi Kurdistan still suffers from old mindsets in some ways, the huge energy reserves in the area, Turkey and Europe’s insatiable appetite for non-Russian energy sources, and other factors have created unlikely partners in the region. Dr. Demir offers readers a fine overview of how, including an analysis of why this relationship may endure or how it may perish. -- David Romano, Missouri State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 A Globalist Analysis 2 Constructing the Threat\t 3 Turkey Confronts a New Reality\t 4 Securing a ‘Kurdistan’ In Iraq\t 5 Regional Motives\t 6 Global Motives 7 The Changing Global Context","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040810238295,"sku":"9781498571630","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498571630.jpg?v=1750947917","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-geopolitics-of-turkeykurdistan-relations-9781498571630","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}