The US-Kurdish Problematique

... context of US-Kurdish relationships, we can only consider an institutionalized relationship to exist between the US and the Kurds of Iraq. The role of Non-state actors Non-state actors can be classified as: a) institutions, b) fundamentalist groups, c) ethnic groups (e.g. establishments such as PKK, PYD and others), d) military/militia groups, and e) ‘states to be’ (e.g. KRG/ PLO). The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as an entity falls into the last category — ‘states to be’ [ 1 ], given their ...