The Response of Iraq’s Political Elite to Early Elections
(Photo: Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters) Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced a preliminary date...
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Developing Iraq Through Electoral Reform
(Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP) The iconic collapse of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square, Baghdad,...
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How the Iraqi Parties Law Enables Electoral Corruption
(Photo: Ahmad Al Rubaye/AFP) Parties require large financial and human resources to participate in...
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Is Press Freedom Respected or Oppressed in Iraqi Kurdistan?
(KRG Spokesperson. Photo: Herish Qadir/NRT Media) When Iraqi journalist and researcher Hisham...
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Iraq’s Foreign Policy Balance
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi began talks with Iranian leaders soon after he arrived in the...
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Iraq’s Newest Political Bloc and Implications for the Next Election
On 30 June 2020, the leader of the Hikma Movement, Ammar Al-Hakim, announced a new parliamentary...
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No Cheers for Iraq’s Consensus Politics
(Photo: Karim Kadim/AP) Since October 2019 hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have taken to the...
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Where Does Baghdad and Washington’s Strategic Dialogue Leave Tehran?
On June 11, 2020, a new round of strategic talks was launched between Iraq and the United States...
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The Hawza in Protest: What 1920 Teaches Us About 2020
(Photo: Abdullah Dhiaa Al-Deen/Reuters) The recent Iraqi protest movement has brought to the...
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Modernisation in Iraq: Between Theory and Practice
Over the past century, most of the by-products of modernity that arrived in Iraq ranged from the...
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