@book{1b581590bfb8404d994ab0d93fe1475b,
title = "The Kurdish Model of Political Community: A Vision of National Liberation Defiant of the Nation-State",
abstract = "The Kurdish Model of Political Community: A Vision of National Liberation Defiant of the Nation-State undertakes a task long due in Kurdish studies: addressing common misunderstandings about and outlining theoretical implications of Kurdish politics. Hanifi Baris develops his arguments with an historical examination and finds apathy towards and a resistance to state-building in Kurdistan. Accordingly, Baris argues, this tendency to establish self-government with distaste to state-building has enabled major Kurdish movements in Turkey and Syria to develop a form of political community that constitutes a viable alternative to those based on theocratic, imperial and national sovereignty. Thus, Baris concludes, rather than being a conflict between competing nationalisms, the current Kurdish conflict in Turkey and Syria is between competing visions of political community.",
keywords = "Kurdish politics, nation-state, Democratic Autonomy, Political Community, Confederalism",
author = "Hanifi Baris",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-7936-0000-4",
series = "Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations",
publisher = "Lexington Books",
}