Books by David L. Phillips

Explores the subjugation of Kurds by Arab, Ottoman, and Persian powers for almost a century, and explains why Kurds are now evolving from a victimized people to a coherent political community. David L. Phillips describes Kurdish rebellions and arbitrary divisions in the last century, chronicling the nadir of Kurdish experience in the 1980s.

Considers non-State Muslim organizations at different stages of abandoning violence and pursuing their goals through a political process. This book states that some have successfully made the transition; others are in mid-stream; some have tried but backtracked, splintered, or simply abandoned such efforts reverting to pathological violence.