TY - JOUR ID - 78123 TI - Kurdish Movements and Distributive Power Structures: A Theoretical Model to Understand the Rise and Fall of Kurdish Movements JO - Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies JA - WSPS LA - en SN - 2588-3119 AU - Bahrami, Siamak AD - Assistant Professor of Political Sciences ,Kermanshah Branch,Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 3 IS - 4 SP - 839 EP - 877 KW - Kurdish movements KW - distributive power structures KW - quadruple analysis levels DO - 10.22059/wsps.2020.296247.1134 N2 - Many studies have been conducted on the Kurds and their movements. Most authors have considered historical dimensions or applied limited theoretical variables, but have not been able to identify the variables to identify the key reasons behind the rise and fall of Kurdish movements in an explanatory theoretical model. Consequently, there is neither available data about their rise, continuity, and fall, nor an explicit model to explain how they rose and fell. This paper seeks to create such a theoretical model by relying on the concepts of international relations. This paper responds to the key questions of why Kurdish movements rise, fall, and continue, and what factor or factors influence their distinguishing features? It is hypothesized that the ways that Kurdish movements rise, fall, and continue are influenced by the distributive and reproductive power structures at the four analysis levels of the international system, regional, national, and intra-Kurdish levels. The unique features of each level are expressed in one of the four possible states of hegemony, power-centered, balance-centered, and transition as applies to each of the four levels separately. This study applies distributive models for the period 1815–1990. Future studiescould consider reproductive model analysis. UR - https://wsps.ut.ac.ir/article_78123.html L1 - https://wsps.ut.ac.ir/article_78123_b70b90f089acea919efd7daa0965abb8.pdf ER -