TY - JOUR TT - Kurdistan Regional Government: An Assessment within the Frame of the Rentier State Approach AU - Tüysüzoğlu, Göktürk PY - 2015 DA - December DO - 10.33458/uidergisi.463037 JF - Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi JO - uidergisi PB - Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1304-7310 SP - 73 EP - 98 VL - 12 IS - 47 KW - Barzani KW - KDP KW - Enerji KW - Kerkük KW - Mahdavy. N2 - Rentier state approach defines the states that acquire their whole income only through a natural resource. These states present an authoritarian type of profile and their people have a passive stance in terms of political/economic issues. When we assess Kurdistan Regional Government according to the rentier state approach, we could define this region as a rentier type of administration, however, not an independent state. For why economic development is fully dependent to oil production and exportation, industrial production could be seen as a minute amount and the most significant employer is the regional administration. Regional government, which has articulated vast majority of Kurdish tribes to its political will and has ignored pluralism, consolidates the rentier type of administration by the reference of Kurdish independence and the emphasis on regional security. UR - https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.463037 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/540849 ER -