The Kurdish model of political community: a vision of national liberation defiant of the nation-state Kurdish societies, politics, and international relations./ Hanifi Baris.

Abstract

"National sovereignty entails exclusive ownership of territories and natural resources, which often leads to uncompromising domination and subjugation of life by a central political authority. In a stark contrast, the Kurdish vision of political community invokes communal sovereignty, which is detached from the nation and the territorial state"--