Plakoudas Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Turkey

The New PKK
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-75659-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet

This book seeks to answer the “why” and “how” questions about the insurgency of the PKK, a militant left-wing group of Turkey’s Kurds, in Turkey. The PKK has been inter-locked in an intermittent war against Turkey since 1984 in the name of Kurdish nationalism. The author combines  insights of Strategy and IR - from strategy and tactics in irregular warfare to peace negotiations between state authorities and insurgents, with data from qualitative research, to achieve two inter-related objectives: first, assess the current state of affairs and predict the future course of the conflict and, secondly, draw general conclusions on how protracted conflicts can end and how.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plakoudas, Spyridon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Study the PKK versus Turkey Conflict.- 2. The "War of the Flea".- 3. The Kurdish “Phoenix” (2004-2012).- 4. The "Solution Process" (2013-2015).- 5. The Two-Fold “War on Terror” (2015-2017).- 6. What Lies Ahead.

Über Autor(innen)

Spyridon Plakoudas is Assistant Professor in Strategy and Security at the American University in the Emirates, UAE.