Kurdistan in Iraq: The Evolution of a Quasi-State - Aram Rafaat - Google Books

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The Kurdish-Iraqi conflict lies in the fact that Kurdistan is a nation-without-a-state and Iraq is a non-nation state, each possessing a nationhood project differing from and opposing the other. Iraqi-Kurdistan is an outward looking entity seeking external…