الأهمية الجيوستراتيجية لإقليم كردستان العراق من المنظور الإقليمي و الدولي

Abstract EN

This study aims to show the impact of geopolitics on the foreign policy of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

The study was based on “David Easton's” systems analysis approach to analyze the role and influence of the geopolitics of the region as an influential factor in its foreign relations.

The study assumed that the territory's foreign policy remained defined and governed by the geopolitical doctrine, and its control in the shaping of the territory's foreign policy towards its external environment.

Courtiers neighboring the territory used the Kurdish case in northern Iraq either to converge or to contain each other (Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria) to achieve their vital and economic interests.

United States supports the Kurds in northern Iraq, and supports their right to establish a federal democratic system on ethnic basis that gives them as much public policy-making powers as possible in their constitutionally recognized territory, with remaining at a lower level than a state in order to keep them a force that can be invested in regional relations with Iraq's neighbors, while the United States seeks to turn the Kurdistan Region into permanent U.

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military bases.

The study concluded that the policy of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq towards the surrounding countries in the region, all came from the point of view of political realism and interests, and according to the differing geopolitical map of the region.