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The Kurdish Spring: A New Map of the Middle East. By David L. Phillips. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2015. 268 pp. $74.95 ($24.95, paper).
The Kurdish Spring adds to a long list of recent books on the Kurds. This scholarly theme has flourished in the early twenty-first century in sharp contrast with most of the twentieth century when the subject was all but ignored by scholars and politicians alike.
Phillips draws a panoramic picture of the Kurds in all four parts of Greater Kurdistan: parts of southeastern Turkey, northern Syria, northern Iraq, and western Iran. This is the book's strength because it provides...