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AbstractTwo different sociopolitical projects of nation formation seem to be in praxis in Kurdistan simultaneously: The Kurdistan Region of Iraq aspires to be an independent nation‐state, while the movement led by the Kurdistan Workers' Party advocates a democratic confederal project. How did this bifurcation arise? By putting Abdullah Öcalan's interpretation of nationalism and capitalist modernity in dialogue with existing theories of nationalism, I argue that this bifurcation resulted from a difference in scaling the root causes of the Kurdish question: The former project imagines emancipation through state formation within capitalist modernity, while the latter problematises capitalist modernity itself. The modular and hegemonic expansion of nationalism and the nation‐state along with capitalist modernity has been countered in Mesopotamia by politico‐social multiplicity. This has given rise to the particular structural dynamics that underlie a "recurring failure" in state formation. The bifurcation in question here has emerged interactively against this background.

Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --List of tables --List of figures --Introduction: Envisioning the World, Mapping the Global --From Region to World, and Back Again --The World of Anti-Semitism --Envisioning a World Law --Determining the Global from a Social Work Perspective --The Revolution in Rojava and the International --Resisting World Politics on 'Migration and Development'? --'Sovereignty' and 'Intervention' --Russia and the EU in a Multipolar World --Back from the USSR --Beyond a Global Horizon --References --Notes on Contributors