Abstract
This article focuses on the geopolitical perspective, in the relations between America and Iraqi Kurdistan Region since 2003. Since then, the Iraqi Kurdistan Region has become a good ally of the U.S. because the region geopolitically is significant for the United State foreign policy. The Iraqi Kurdistan Region has been using its strategic location in order to enhance its relations with the U.S. The purpose of the study is to explore the significance of geopolitical perspective in the U.S. and KRI relations since 2003. This paper examines that by focusing on two main factors. Firstly, the military relations between the U.S. and the IKR, which are the Iraq war in 2003 and the Islamic State war since 2014. Secondly, security and stability of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. This research aims to answer the main question: dose geopolitical perspective influence on relations between the U.S. and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region? This research concludes that for the US the geopolitical of KRI is significant. Ultimately, it appears that there is a good relationship between the U.S. and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
Highlights
Iraqi Kurdistan Region would be important geographically for the U.S foreign policy because it is close to American’s enemies, such as the previous Iraqi regime the Saddam regime, and more recently the terrorist group known as the Islamic State (IS), as well as Iran and Russia
By focusing on two main factors, namely the military relations between the U.S and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, and security and stability of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, this research intends to answer the following significant question: dose geopolitical perspective influence on relations between the U.S and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region? This article firstly focuses on two wars, namely the Iraq war in 2003 and the Islamic State war since 2014, and secondly focuses on security and stability in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, to illustrate how Iraqi Kurds’ land and Kurdish forces have positively affected American - Kurds relationship because of Iraqi Kurdistan’s strategic position and useful military strength for achieving the policy aims of the U.S interventions
As this article has shown, U.S foreign policy has changed over time towards its alliances
Summary
Iraqi Kurdistan Region would be important geographically for the U.S foreign policy because it is close to American’s enemies, such as the previous Iraqi regime the Saddam regime, and more recently the terrorist group known as the Islamic State (IS), as well as Iran and Russia. The U.S may enhance its relations with the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the Middle East because it has significant territory and good military forces for fulfilling the U.S foreign policy aims in this area. This study aims to critically examine the U.S and Iraqi Kurdistan Region relations from a geopolitical perspective, which is the relationship between politics and economics geography, since 2003. This article firstly focuses on two wars, namely the Iraq war in 2003 and the Islamic State war since 2014, and secondly focuses on security and stability in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, to illustrate how Iraqi Kurds’ land and Kurdish forces have positively affected American - Kurds relationship because of Iraqi Kurdistan’s strategic position and useful military strength for achieving the policy aims of the U.S interventions. In other word this paper will show how the cooperation with Kurds assisted the US in a manner that generally supported and legitimated the dominant U.S geopolitical position of a particular event
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