The Kurdish spring

Canvassing the Kurdish spring / Michael M. Gunter -- The Kurdish spring & its impact on the Middle East / Ofra Bengio -- Central state weakness and Kurdish opportunities / David Romano -- The Kurdish spring and changing geopolitics of the Middle East / Michael B. Bishku -- Kurdish spring, Iraqi Kurdistan / Mohammed M.A. Ahmed -- Turkey's Kurdish movement and the AKP's Kurdish opening : a Kurdish spring or fall? / Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden and Nic Walker -- Democratic confederalism as a Kurdish spring : the PKK and the quest for radical democracy / Joost Jongerden and Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya -- The Syrian Kurds in "transition to somewhere" / Eva Savelsberg and Jordi Tejel -- The Kurdish autonomy bid in Syria : challenges and reactions / Harriet Allsopp -- The Kurdish spring : the aftermath in Iran / Nader EntessarPage -- Producing knowledge and controlling the narrative : transnational dimensions of the "Kurdish spring" / Vera Eccarius-Kelly -- The Kurdish spring in diaspora? : Austria and its Kurds / Thomas Schmidinger..

Includes bibliographical references and index..