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The PKK-Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s Regional Politics

During and After the Cold War

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Fills a gap in IR literature by presenting a post-structural study of a dissident ethnic movement and its foreign policy

  • Examines the often overlooked ways in which the PKK rose to hegemonic position representing the Kurds and their interests

  • Approaches the contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a counter-hegemonic narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and sense of belonging, through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Ali Balci
    Pages 1-26
  3. Imagining the Kurdish Nation

    • Ali Balci
    Pages 57-84
  4. Writing the USA as Imperial Power

    • Ali Balci
    Pages 85-109
  5. Writing the Soviet Union as Comrade

    • Ali Balci
    Pages 111-131
  6. Re-writing the USA After the Cold War

    • Ali Balci
    Pages 157-178
  7. Conclusion

    • Ali Balci
    Pages 179-184
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 185-212

About this book

This book presents a theoretical framework to study dissident ethnic movements’ imagination of world politics, with a special focus on the PKK as a case study. Dissident ethnic movements are not only a challenge to the existing hegemonic power, but they also produce an alternative closed society based on different ethnic imagination. Instead of taking the armed PKK movement as a pure resistant, this book approaches contemporary Kurdish nationalism led by the PKK as a counter-hegemonic with a narrative that entails the emergence of a new kind of identity and sense of belonging, through which the PKK has been able to exercise its power. This book is an attempt to go beyond resistance-oriented approach, unveiling the two faces of the PKK’s representation of world politics: its transformative effect on the Kurds, and its exclusionary function towards traditional and alternative Kurdish subjects/institutions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sakarya University , Serdivan, Turkey

    Ali Balci

About the author

Ali Balcı is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations in Sakarya University, Turkey. He specializes in poststructuralism in International Relations, Turkish foreign policy, and postcolonialism in the Middle East.

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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