Dr Loqman Radpey, an expert on Kurdistan and the Middle East, is a fellow at the Middle East Forum with over a decade of experience analyzing the international legal and political dimensions of the right to self-determination for peoples and nations, including the case of Kurdistan. He is the author of ‘Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law’ (published by Routledge, 2023), the first comprehensive historico-legal account of Kurdish aspirations for statehood from a Middle Eastern perspective within post-World War I peace agreements and the broader discourse of self-determination in international law literature over time. His upcoming work, ‘Self-Determination during the Cold War’ will appear in ‘The Cambridge History of International Law’(Volume XI).
Dr Loqman Radpey, an expert on Kurdistan and the Middle East, is a fellow at the Middle East Forum with over a decade of experience analyzing the international legal and political dimensions of the right to self-determination for peoples and nations, including the case of Kurdistan. He is the author of ‘Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law’ (published by Routledge, 2023), the first comprehensive historico-legal account of Kurdish aspirations for statehood from a Middle Eastern perspective within post-World War I peace agreements and the broader discourse of self-determination in international law literature over time. His upcoming work, ‘Self-Determination during the Cold War’ will appear in ‘The Cambridge History of International Law’(Volume XI).
Dr Loqman Radpey, an expert on Kurdistan and the Middle East, is a fellow at the Middle East Forum with over a decade of experience analyzing the international legal and political dimensions of the right to self-determination for peoples and nations, including the case of Kurdistan. He is the author of ‘Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law’ (published by Routledge, 2023), the first comprehensive historico-legal account of Kurdish aspirations for statehood from a Middle Eastern perspective within post-World War I peace agreements and the broader discourse of self-determination in international law literature over time. His upcoming work, ‘Self-Determination during the Cold War’ will appear in ‘The Cambridge History of International Law’(Volume XI).
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