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Two major attempts at secession - Kurds from Iraq, Catalans from Spain - have gone awry, and the fallout will be a long time fully assessing. But Brookings Institution analyst James Kirchick, the author the book, THE END OF EUROPE looks at both and that other separation anxiety-raiser BREXIT. One big difference between the Kurdish and Catalan movements…the first has overwhelming majority support, the second, maybe not so much.
By KSFRTwo major attempts at secession - Kurds from Iraq, Catalans from Spain - have gone awry, and the fallout will be a long time fully assessing. But Brookings Institution analyst James Kirchick, the author the book, THE END OF EUROPE looks at both and that other separation anxiety-raiser BREXIT. One big difference between the Kurdish and Catalan movements…the first has overwhelming majority support, the second, maybe not so much.