The right to self-determination, a Kurdish national movements and their status in the international arena Cover Image

Prawo do samostanowienia a kurdyjskie ruchy narodowościowe i ich status na arenie międzynarodowej
The right to self-determination, a Kurdish national movements and their status in the international arena

Author(s): Magdalena El Ghamari
Subject(s): Civil Society, International relations/trade, Social differentiation, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: state; nation; Kurdistan; the Kurdish issue;

Summary/Abstract: Kurdish state does not exist on any official map of the world. After all, for years the Kurds are fighting to not just treat them as a nation, but accept their aspirations to their own territory. Research interests and taking political science issues related to the essence of prey, and the nation is in the context of the situation of the Kurds is extremely important. The essence of any state concept, in spite of their diversity and the differences between them is the fact that the state is the collectivity of citizens, organized a community of people, subordinated sovereign power and living in a particular territory. These three essential elements of the state: territory, separated from the other boundaries within which people are subjected to a single political authority, the community, the people in general, who inhabit the territory, and who share a bond based on political power are inextricably linked, and without them it is difficult to talk about the possibility of the existence of the state. The nation is the people who are bound in the great unity of the force, which is nationality. State and people interact. This process can be described as nation-building role of the state and as a nation state-building role. Presenting problems attributes of the European approach to „the state and the nation” in relation to Kurdistan and the Kurdish nation has a contribution to further consider the research and attempt to answer the question – Is the State of Kurdistan and its people, is able to exhaust the catalog of the conditions necessary to create your own space earth.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 59-75
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish