Path Dependence from Proxy Agent to De Facto State: A History of ‘Strategic Exploitation’ of the Kurds as a Context of the Iraqi Kurdistan Security Policy

The scientific goal of this paper is to conceptualize the phenomenon of ‘strategic exploitation’ of Kurdish political entities and to investigate it as a process that triggered the change in Kurdish actorness from isolated non-state to de facto state. Covering two centuries, the contribution examine...

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Main Author: Sosnowski, Piotr (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: International journal of conflict and violence
Year: 2022, Volume: 16, Pages: 1-14
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Keywords:
Kurdistan
de facto state
path dependence
proxy war
Security Policy

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