President Donald Trump meets with the Kurdistan Regional Government President Nechirvan Barzani on January 22, 2020, at the Davos Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland. Kurdish domestic politics often hinder its attempts to pursue it foreign policy goals. (White House/Shealah Craighead)

Nechirvan Barzani and the New Kurdish Diplomacy

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Domestic disunity is a major hindrance to Iraqi Kurdish foreign policy goals.

The central question in Iraqi Kurdish foreign policy at the moment is not whether Nechirvan Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, has changed Kurdish diplomacy. He has. The question is whether Kurdish politics can change enough to use what his diplomacy has made possible.

Barzani is trying to shift Kurdish politics........

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