Strategies for turning security interdependence into strategic cooperation between the Kourds of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria Case study: Central Government of Iraq

Sobhani, Hasan; Shafiee, Hassan

doi:10.30465/cps.2024.48238.3363

Strategies for turning security interdependence into strategic cooperation between the Kourds of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria Case study: Central Government of Iraq

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Authors

hasan sobhani ¹

Hassan Shafiee ²

¹ Doctoral student of International Relations, Department of International Relations, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

² Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.30465/cps.2024.48238.3363

Abstract

Despite the differences between Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria, these countries, on the issue of Kurdish independence, based on Bari Buzan's security interdependence theory, consider Kurdish independence as a common regional threat and have not allowed them independence. The fall of Saddam, the support of Iran and the United States of the Iraqi Kurds, the weakness of the Iraqi central government and the ISIS attacks, prompted the Iraqi Kurds to hold a referendum (2016) to try to gain independence, but it did not succeed due to security interdependence.This research, which has been conducted in a descriptive-analytical way, is based on the fact that with the joint cooperation between the Kurds and the central governments, it is possible to turn the threats to the strategic cooperation between the Kurds and the central governments in political, military, environmental, economic and social fields.The findings of the research that has studied the strategies of cooperation between the Kurds and the central government of Iraq showed that the success of countries in one area leads to the encouragement of cooperation in other areas.This research has addressed the situation of Iraqi Kurds with the Iraqi central government as a case study .

Keywords

Region

Kurdistan

Iraq

dependence

reciprocity

security

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