The US-Kurdish Problematique
... Increasingly, state and non-state interactions can be seen to determine the making of politics: US relations with the Kurds of Iraq bear testimony to this. From 1994 onwards the US State Department increased active working with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) as a vital component of the Iraqi opposition. The leading Kurdish role in US plans for ‘regime change’ in Iraq, along with the convergence of the United States and Kurdish interests, led gradually to the onset of a US Kurdish policy. Whilst US ...