Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The evolution of Kurdish nationalism
  • The long road to Kurdish autonomy
  • Paved with good intentions
  • Unholy alliances
  • Deteriorating relationships
  • Marginalizing the Kurds
  • An imposed autonomy
  • A time for war
  • Interregnum
  • "One war begets another" : the Iran-Iraq war
  • Rising from the ashes
  • The birth pangs of Kurdish self-rule
  • Uncivil war in Kurdistan
  • The foreign relations imbroglio
  • From victims to victors
  • The great leap forward in post-Saddam Iraq
  • "No friends but the mountains" reconsidered.