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Context, Opportunities and Threats: A Comparative Analysis of the KDP and the PUK in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.116093 Çifçi, Deniz Kandil, Hazem The Kurdish ethnic-national contention in Iraq has undergone various, and contradictory, ups and downs since 1958. Using a synthesis of the conceptual tools of contemporary social movement theories, this study shows that shifts in the local, national, regional and international political contextual factors, along with the rational agents’ competency and cost-benefit-calculations and the resources at their disposal—and, to some extent, their ideational components—have substantially influenced the Kurdish political agents, the KDP and the PUK’s, mobilisation strategies since 1958. This thesis shows that there is a dialectical relationship between contemporary social movement theories and political contextual factors, and reveals that together they offer comprehensive frameworks for explaining the Kurdish ethnic-national contention as experienced through its political agents. Using a systematic thematic content analysis method, the KDP and the PUK’s ethnic-national struggle is investigated comparatively through four chronologically organised cycles (episodes) of contention. University of Cambridge 2024-09-18 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/380504 embargo 2029-02-24 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/58b95e9d-0d39-4f73-a519-f461ad39358a/download b9b8584afbc483ba0bea003e753d3169 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/fb440bd8-33f9-4820-ae0a-9b2058574fe8/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved Kurdistan Region in Iraq Kurdistan Democratic Party Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Social Movement Theories