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Foreword /Ferhad Seyder --Against anarchism - Abdullah Öcalan's theoretical traces : Murray Bookchin's eco-anarchism & Antonio Gramsci's civil society. A critical analysis /Christin Lechowski,Alexander Maxa --Kurdistan in Iraq - The Kurdish quest for statehood and its current challenges /Lara Zumstein --The struggle to produce a constitution for the Kurdistan Region - Iraq /Jihan Sindi.

"This article analyses the current developments in the Kurdish areas of Iraq focusing on the advance and military successes of the 'Islamic State'. Professor Seyder sheds light on the tactical behavior of the different Kurdish actors and their conflicts with each other, the geopolitical interests of international players such as the United States and the future perspectives of IS." (author's abstract)

Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I: The Rise of Paradiplomacy -- Chapter 2: The Evolution of Kurdistan-Iraq's Paradiplomacy: Causes and constraints -- Chapter 3: The Evolution of Palestine's Paradiplomacy: Causes and constraints -- PART II: The foundations of Paradiplomacy -- Chapter 4: Legal framework, institutionalization, tools and motivs of Kurdistan Iraq's Paradiplomacy -- Chapter 5: Legal framework, institutionalization, tools and motivs of Palestine's Paradiplomacy -- PART III: Paradiplomacy in Practise (selected relations) -- Chapter 6: Palestine and USA -- Chapter 7: Kurdistan-Iraq and EU -- Chapter 8: Palestine and EU -- Chapter 9: Palestine and Russia -- Chapter 10: Kurdistan-Iraq and China -- Chapter 11: Palestine and China -- Chapter 12: Kurdistan-Iraq and Turkey -- Chapter 13: Kurdistan-Iraq and Iran -- Chapter 14: Palestine and Iran -- Chapter 15: Conclusion.