New Publication: Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances by Washington Kurdish Institute published on 2023-01-30T15:05:53Z Washington Kurdish Institute By: Jean-Philippe Beaudet January 30, 2023 The Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) hosted Dr. Ozum Yesiltas, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, and she's researched and written on international relations theory, American foreign policy, international human rights, peace and conflict studies, and gender and identity politics in the Middle East. Her most recent book, Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances, Change and Continuity in the US-Kurdish Relationship, investigates anti-statist discourse and the dynamics of how best to treat non-state actors in international relations theory. The case study that she uses to structure her argument is the Kurdish struggle. We had the opportunity to pick her brain and discuss her research here today. Genre News & Politics