Referendum Blues Redux: Kurdistan, Catalonia and the Nazi regime
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Referendum Blues Redux: Kurdistan, Catalonia and Israel
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BFFs: Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani making plans with Israeli leader Bibi Netanyahu.
Dr Can Erimtan
21st Century Wire
Identity Politics and the Spectre of Micro-Nations
The recent referenda that have taken place in Spain (1 October 2017) and Iraq (25 September 2017) have managed to upset the status quo considerably. The first referendum did not trigger, but greatly augmented the momentum carried by the votes cast in Italy’s Lombardy and Veneto subsequently (23 October 2017), votes cast in favour of “greater autonomy.”
One of the most vocal proponents of these Italy-based movements towards self-reliance and particularly fiscal probity, the political scientist Professor Marco Bassani, r...