Michael M Gunter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 516807 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael M Gunter |
| NOMBRES | Michael M |
| APELLIDO | Gunter |
| FIRMA | GUNTER M M |
| AFILIACIONES | Tennessee Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6069-9146 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Torturous Turkey‐PKK Peace Process
This article analyzes the peace process between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been playing out since fall 2024, and explains why it is unlikely to succeed. As of spring 2026, negotiations had reached an impasse over how the Turkish constitution should be amended to recognize Kurdish rights. Obstacles also included how to facilitate the reintegration into society of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and his militants; renewed v…
Kurds
Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period
This edited collection of fourteen specialized, heterogeneous chapters on the Kurdish experience in Ottoman Syria will impress nuanced scholars with its scholarly depth and impressive maturity of analysis dealing with what many might deem a rather obscure subject. Nevertheless, as documented by Medieval Arab historians, Kurds have lived on what became Ottoman Syria since at least the eleventh century, while according to modern scholars such as Is…
Why the New Turkey‐PKK Peace Process Is Likely to Fail
In fall 2024, the Turkish government suddenly proposed that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) disarm and disband in return for unspecified concessions. Abdullah Ocalan, the group's long‐incarcerated leader, agreed. During its extraordinary 12th Congress of May 2025, the PKK declared that its 40‐year violent struggle had “brought the Kurdish issue to the point of resolution through democratic politics, thus completing its historical mission.” It …
Women’s Issues in Contemporary Turkish Civil Society
The main argument of this article is that today’s Turkey’s lacks a robust, modern civil society and concomitant implementation of fair solutions to modern women’s issues. This is in addition to the many other existential problems that have curtailed Turkish democracy and statehood under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A vibrant civil society is crucial to a viable democracy and undoubtedly necessary to understand and begin solving women’s issues …
Heydar Aliyev and the Foundations of Modern Azerbaijan
The Karabakh Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Russia and Post-Soviet Ethnic Conflicts in Perspective
Erdogan
At last, a meticulously researched and stylistically elegant analysis that neither completely sanctifies nor vilifies the Turkish leader who has become one of the great bete noires of many of the Kurdish people, among others. Professor Yavuz not only deftly probes Erdogan’s populist strengths and accomplishments, but also his marginalization of Turkey’s democratic institutions. Furthermore, in the author’s own words, “this book constitutes more t…
Thinking Theoretically about the Kurds
Thinking theoretically about three important and recent events affecting the Kurds can help us to understand better their political experiences.11 For background to the Kurdish issue, see David McDowall (2004 McDowall, D. (2004) A Modern History of the Kurds, 3rd edn. (New York: I.B. Tauris). [Google Scholar]) A Modern History of the Kurds, 3rd edn. (New York: I.B. Tauris). For a more recent analysis, see Michael M. Gunter (2019 Gunter, M. (2019)…
Turkey's Mission Impossible
Erdogan’s Train to Authoritarianism
Recep Tayyip Erdogan — Turkey’s current president (elected 2014) and former prime minister (2003–2014) — infamously once declared that “democracy is like a train; you get off once you have reached your [real] destination.” In other words, one can use democratic means to achieve authoritarian goals. Analyzing Erdogan’s imaginary train journey, one must conclude that the Turkish leader never had the intention of reaching democracy. Indeed, now that…
Erdogan’s ‘new’ Turkey
This wide-ranging, edited volume of 11 chapters brings together approaches from political science, sociology, history, and anthropology to analyze the causes and consequences of the failed Gulen Mo
The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds
The October 2019 Turkish Incursion into Kurdish Syria
Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey
Routledge Handbook on the Kurds
The Kurds of Turkey
The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities is a richly developed, multidimensional analysis of the diverse identities or elite blocs of the Kurds of Turkey. Based on the author's doctoral dissertation at the renowned Sciences Po in Paris, the book aptly demonstrates that the Kurds—much less, the Turkish Kurds—do not constitute a monolithic bloc, as many researchers and interested observers imply or even claim when they discu…
Ethnic boundaries in Turkish politics
According to the author, ‘this study analyzes the shifting attitude of the secular, leftist Kurdish movement [Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK] toward Islam and Islamic actors in the past decades thr
Erdogan's Backsliding
Turkey's July 15 th Coup
Routledge Handbook on the Kurds
Trump, Turkey and the Kurds
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, Vol. 1
Erdoğan and the Decline of Turkey
Iraq, Syria, Isis and the Kurds
The continuing Kurdish problem in Turkey after O ̈calan's capture
Turkey's sudden and dramatic capture of Abdullah (Apo) Öcalan in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 February 1999, far from ending the odyssey of the longtime leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has led to a process of continuing implicit bargaining between the Turkish government and the PKK that holds out the hope of a win-win result for all the parties involved. Turkey's EU candidacy, future democratisation and economic success have all become invol…
Reopening turkey's closed kurdish opening
The Kurds in Iraq
The following briefs are edited versions of papers presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Anchorage, Alaska, November 8, 2003. The editors were Hakan Yavuz and Michael Gunter, whose papers are included below. Why Kurdish Statehood is Unlikely , Michael M. Gunter, professor of political science, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee Transnational Networks: New Opportunities and Constraints for…
A de facto Kurdish state in Northern Iraq
Following Saddam's defeat in the 1991 Gulf War and their own failed uprising that had ensued, the Iraqi Kurds nevertheless began increasingly to move toward the creation of a de facto state and government in northern Iraq. This was accomplished behind the protection of the Allied Poised Hammer forces stationed in south-eastern Turkey, a United Nations presence sanctioned by Security Council Resolution 688 of 5 April, 1991, that had condemned 'the…
Turkey’s Kurdish Question
Journal Article Turkey’s Kurdish Question Get access byHenri J. Barkey and Graham E. Fuller. Lanham, MD, Rowan Little.eld Publishers, Inc., 1998. 256 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. Michael M. Gunter Michael M. Gunter Tennessee Technological University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658017 Published: 1…
The Kurdish Spring
This book is a very mixed bag, with much useful information and insights into the prerequisites of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq for independence in its final chapter but also, unfortunately, a great deal of tedious repetition of facts, lack of adequate citations involving the academic literature in favor of less reliable Web sources, and many Web citations lacking dates and consistency in style throughout the text. At times one…
Revisiting Western Strategies against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
This article suggests a combination of military, political, and diplomatic approaches for Western states to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). In Syria, support should be strengthened for the only effective moderate force fighting against ISIS: the Kurdish militias. In Iraq, where ISIS relies on local partners from Sunni Arab tribes to help govern, it is incumbent on the West to break this coalition in order to hamper ISIS’s mil…
The Kurdish Spring
The purpose of this article is to survey the Kurdish Spring (demands for meaningful democracy along with cultural, social, and political rights and their immediate implementation) that has occurred in the aftermath of the much better known Arab Spring which began in late 2010. To this end it analyses the situation in Turkey, Iraq and Syria. In Turkey the failure of the government’s much heralded Kurdish Opening and the prospects for its renewal a…
T urkey
Contemporary Armenian Terrorism
In the past decade Armenian terrorists have assassinated 30 Turkish diplomats or members of their immediate families, as well as an approximately equal number of non‐Turks. In addition, well over 300 other people around the world have been wounded by their attacks. The purpose of this article is to move beyond the analysis in my earlier studies of the subject by analyzing the present state of the Armenian terrorist movement with regard to (1) its…
What Happened to the United Nations Ministate Problem
During the past decade, a number of scholarly analyses of the United Nations ministate problem have appeared. This concern is understandable because the dilemma of ministate representation goes to the heart of the malaise increasingly gripping the world organization: How to square formal voting power with the realities of international politics? Indeed, no less of an authority than the late Secretary-General U Thant, in his final Annual Report, w…
Liechtenstein and the League of Nations
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Thinking Theoretically about the Kurds
Thinking theoretically about three important and recent events affecting the Kurds can help us to understand better their political experiences.11 For background to the Kurdish issue, see David McDowall (2004 McDowall, D. (2004) A Modern History of the Kurds, 3rd edn. (New York: I.B. Tauris). [Google Scholar]) A Modern History of the Kurds, 3rd edn. (New York: I.B. Tauris). For a more recent analysis, see Michael M. Gunter (2019 Gunter, M. (2019)…
Ethnic boundaries in Turkish politics
According to the author, ‘this study analyzes the shifting attitude of the secular, leftist Kurdish movement [Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK] toward Islam and Islamic actors in the past decades thr
Erdoğan and the Decline of Turkey
T urkey's F loundering EU C andidacy and I ts K urdish P roblem
T he C ontinuing C risis in I raqi K urdistan
Kurdish Future in a Post-Saddam Iraq
The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations From World War I to 1998
Erdogan
At last, a meticulously researched and stylistically elegant analysis that neither completely sanctifies nor vilifies the Turkish leader who has become one of the great bete noires of many of the Kurdish people, among others. Professor Yavuz not only deftly probes Erdogan’s populist strengths and accomplishments, but also his marginalization of Turkey’s democratic institutions. Furthermore, in the author’s own words, “this book constitutes more t…
Erdogan's Backsliding
Trump, Turkey and the Kurds
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
In the literature on child and adolescent psychoanalysis attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is described as complex syndrome with wide-ranging psychodynamic features. Broadly speaking, the disorder is divided into three categories: 1. a disorder in early object relations leading to the development of a maniform defence organization in which object-loss anxieties and depressed affects are not worked through via symbolization but are o…
Economic Opportunities in Iraqi Kurdistan
Liechtenstein and the League of Nations
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Switzerland and the United Nations
Despite the approaching universality of the United Nations, Switzerland continues to be a non-member. Her traditional policy of permanent neutrality, which is theoretically incompatible with the United Nations collective security system, and an unsatisfactory experience as a member of the League of Nations largely explain this absence. Ironically enough, however, Switzerland has played in effect as active a role in the United Nations as have many…
What Happened to the United Nations Ministate Problem
During the past decade, a number of scholarly analyses of the United Nations ministate problem have appeared. This concern is understandable because the dilemma of ministate representation goes to the heart of the malaise increasingly gripping the world organization: How to square formal voting power with the realities of international politics? Indeed, no less of an authority than the late Secretary-General U Thant, in his final Annual Report, w…
Teaching Political Science in a Turkish University
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The United Nations
Contemporary Armenian Terrorism
In the past decade Armenian terrorists have assassinated 30 Turkish diplomats or members of their immediate families, as well as an approximately equal number of non‐Turks. In addition, well over 300 other people around the world have been wounded by their attacks. The purpose of this article is to move beyond the analysis in my earlier studies of the subject by analyzing the present state of the Armenian terrorist movement with regard to (1) its…
Notes and Comments
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Terrorism, U.S. Strategy, and Reagan Policies. Marc. A. Celmer
Issues in the History of International Relations
Ethnic Conflict Conference Hosted by Defense Intelligence College
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A de facto Kurdish state in Northern Iraq
Following Saddam's defeat in the 1991 Gulf War and their own failed uprising that had ensued, the Iraqi Kurds nevertheless began increasingly to move toward the creation of a de facto state and government in northern Iraq. This was accomplished behind the protection of the Allied Poised Hammer forces stationed in south-eastern Turkey, a United Nations presence sanctioned by Security Council Resolution 688 of 5 April, 1991, that had condemned 'the…
Nader Entessar, Kurdish Ethnonationalism (Boulder, Colo
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Mulla Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdish rebellion in Iraq
(1994). Mulla Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdish rebellion in Iraq: The intelligence factor. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 465-474
A Trip to Free Kurdistan
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Susurluk
The Iraqi Opposition and the Failure of U.S. Intelligence
(1999). The Iraqi Opposition and the Failure of U.S. Intelligence. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 135-167
The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations From World War I to 1998
Turkey’s Kurdish Question
Journal Article Turkey’s Kurdish Question Get access byHenri J. Barkey and Graham E. Fuller. Lanham, MD, Rowan Little.eld Publishers, Inc., 1998. 256 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. Michael M. Gunter Michael M. Gunter Tennessee Technological University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658017 Published: 1…
The Global Politics of the Environment . Lorraine Elliott Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries
A Response to Sabri Sayari's Review of the Kurds and the Future of Turkey (New York
Sabri Sayari's review of my book The Kurds and the Future of Turkey concludes that “despite some ... merits,” my book “fails to make a significant contribution to the existing scholarship and knowledge about an important and complex issue.” Given some of the criticisms he has made to arrive at his conclusion, one might instead conclude that my book fails to make the contribution Sayari, the executive director of the Institute of Turkish Studies, …
The continuing Kurdish problem in Turkey after O ̈calan's capture
Turkey's sudden and dramatic capture of Abdullah (Apo) Öcalan in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 February 1999, far from ending the odyssey of the longtime leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has led to a process of continuing implicit bargaining between the Turkish government and the PKK that holds out the hope of a win-win result for all the parties involved. Turkey's EU candidacy, future democratisation and economic success have all become invol…
The Kurdish Nation
The Kurdish question consists of the desire of most Kurds to have the cultural, linguistic, and political rights that will protect their Kurdish identity. Some Kurds also seek autonomy or even independence from the countries in which they live; those states, however, have long denied such aspirations. ... The result has been a constant instability that promises to intensify as the Kurds become more politically aware and as their cause grows more …
Kurdish Future in a Post-Saddam Iraq
The Kurds in Iraq
The following briefs are edited versions of papers presented at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Anchorage, Alaska, November 8, 2003. The editors were Hakan Yavuz and Michael Gunter, whose papers are included below. Why Kurdish Statehood is Unlikely , Michael M. Gunter, professor of political science, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee Transnational Networks: New Opportunities and Constraints for…
T he C ontinuing C risis in I raqi K urdistan
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