Despite not having achieved statehood, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has been increasingly active in the international arena since the founding of its Department of Foreign Relations in 2005. This article assesses how successful this diplomacy has been at advancing the interests of both the KRG and the Kurdish statehood enterprise. This article then situates the KRG's foreign initiatives in the growing body of International Relations literature on the foreign policies of non-state actors.

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伊拉克库尔德地区的准外交与库尔德建国企业

自2005年成立外交关系部以来，伊拉克的库尔德地区政府（KRG）尽管尚未获得建国资格，但在国际舞台上的活动日益活跃。本文评估了这种外交在促进两国利益上的成功程度KRG和库尔德建国企业。然后，本文在日益增长的有关非国家行为者外交政策的国际关系文献中介绍了KRG的外国倡议。