Scotland after Sterling

Scottish advocates of leaving the United Kingdom need a plan for a new currency and an independent central bank...

U. S. Needs to Realize Iraqi National Constants

US opposed Kurdistan referendum on independence but Kurdish leadership announced that the alternative did not provide guarantees

Why Doesn’t the U.S. Support Kurdish Independence?

The Kurds are one of Washington’s closest and most reliable allies in the Middle East

Battling for independence: Small states stake their claim

The battle for the ability to make independent choices is easier for existing small states like Qatar, the UAE and Singapore

Christians and Yazidis see a bleak future in a proposed independent Kurdish state

Bashiqa has become the focus of a tug of war between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish region

Iran’s Kurds are growing restless, too

A referendum held by Iraqi Kurds is revving up their Iranian cousins

A look at what might happen if Catalonia goes it alone

Spain declared the referendum illegal and invalid

The Economic Case Against an Independent Kurdistan

The costs will be large and exacting

It is Never a Good Time for the Iraqi Kurds to Become Independent

The Turkish government believes that their self-determination represents an existential threat

Independence movements in Catalonia and Iraqi Kurdistan face the point of no return

In both cases most outsiders would prefer these votes were not happening at all

Iraq will deploy troops if Kurdish referendum turns violent

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Iraq will intervene militarily if the Kurdish region’s planned vote leads to bloodshed

Iraqi Kurds opposing independence vote face threats, mistrust

Most Iraqi Kurds aspire to their own state, but No For Now campaigners see vote as political gamble to benefit presidency

Legitimacy of Kurdish Referendum and possibility of the Federal Supreme Court to abrogate it

Kirkuk… the thorny city where to?

Independent Kurdistan would be a failed state

it is time to recognize that the forced inclusion of the Kurds in Iraq has not worked for us or for the Iraqis