Do you think Kurdistan’s independence movement has failed? And if we assume that Kurdistan’s independence was recognized, could it potentially end conflicts between Iraqis and Kurds, and what should be the next step for Kurds after September 2017 referendum that lacked international support?
The research essay need to develop based on a solid and tentative argument to address the essay’s questions, and it is expected to be informed by, and engage with, the perspectives and arguments in international development studies. While writing the research essay you need to have in mind that development has been regarded as an invention, a Western idea, and very often has provided the legitimacy for social, cultural, economic, and political intervention of Western countries in the life of developing societies in the Third World. Intervention in the named of development has not only curtailed the autonomy of independent states to pursue their own visions and aspirations to construct just and economically sustainable societies, but has also allowed notions of “Whiteness” and “Othering” or “the West and the rest” to be institutionalized in the practice and discourse of the development work. Are the development industry, and the practice and discourse that support it, justifiable today? If so, under what grounds? What are the possible directions of international development in fostering an equitable world?