A potential Kurdistan : the quest for statehood / Janet Klein.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-59)

Introduction -- Whither the Nation State? -- Historical Background -- Marketing Kurdistan as "The Other Iraq"-- A Potential Kurdistan and Kurdistan's Potential -- A Kurdistani Identity? -- Possible Scenarios for Kurdistani Sovereignty -- Kurdistan's Possibilities -- Conclusion.

"This paper analyses the KRG{u2019}s marketing campaign, waged not only through the usual diplomatic (or para-diplomatic) channels, but also via the Internet and through its novel development of what can only be described as 2nationalist infomercials.3 This performative aspect of state-building (literally acting out the state in an attempt to sell sovereignty) may represent both old and new chapters in the history of nationalist movements, but ones that have not yet been adequately theorized. This paper examines the question of a potential Kurdistan through a new lens of analysis that explores not simply the cold, hard struggle for sovereignty, but the softer 2para-diplomatic3 performances acting as the creative energies that market these struggles to the international community."