Focusing primarily on Iran’s role, this analysis concludes that even in a best-case scenario of total democratic political change in the KRI, the the realities of the international system put the power to prevent malign intervention by neighboring states largely out of local hands.
This paper shows that the last hundred years of Kurdish political movements have strongly influenced the civic culture of Kurds. Overall, this paper finds that being Kurdish has a strong positive effect on support for democracy versus autocracy in all three countries.
The demands of the protesters for regime change are a clear manifestation of the deep frustration and the loss of hope for reform among the Iranian public and seem to signal that the time is ripe for comprehensive change.
With a new deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program on the horizon years after the United States left the original Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Western relations with—and concessions to—Iran are currently on the agenda. Dastan Jasim elaborates on why the West can no longer ignore the situation of the Kurdish minority in Iran.
Die Türkei droht weiter mit einer Eskalation in Nordsyrien, der Westen bleibt offenbar passiv. Was steckt dahinter? Expertin Dastan Jasim sieht mehrere Gründe.
Zunächst gingen Frauen und Studentinnen auf die Straße, jetzt dehnen sich die Proteste im Iran aus. Über die langfristigen Auswirkungen unterhält sich Ursula Weidenfeld im Podcast-Gespräch mit Dastan Jasim, die zu kurdischen Fragen im Nahen Osten forscht und sich auch für Menschenrechte einsetzt.
In Solidarity with the Women on the Streets: Feminist Foreign Policy Demands towards Iran
We hosted an event on the feminist foreign policy demands towards Iran. The panel discussed the current situation in Iran and articulated clear and actionable feminist reactions and demands towards the Iranian regime, the German government as well as the international community.
Künstleringespräch & Kurzvortrag Im Rahmen von Leyla Yenirce – SO MUCH ENERGY
Panel discussion
19/10/2022
Kurzvortrag: Widerstandsgeschichte im Iran, Irak, Syrien und der Türkei und die aktuelle Lage von Dastan Jasim (Doctoral fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies)
