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PUBLICATIONS

Prosecuting the Islamic State – Advice for the Iraqi Government on setting up a Trial for Genocide

Since 2014, Iraq has been the scene of horrific atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS, then called ISIL – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) against ethnic and religious communities that it considered anathema to its own hard-line interpretation of Islam. Although the group was initially not considered...

Polls and Policy – examining the US Presidential Election

On November 8th, US Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will hope more than a year on the campaign trail – full of speeches, fundraisers, and presidential debates – will be enough to secure the top political seat in the country. Much has been made of their respective...

The construction of future electric power plants in Iraq with data of current and futurewater resources

Approximately 68% of the Tigris River basin revenues and 97% of the ‎Euphrates River revenues flow in from outside Iraq (Turkey, Syria and Iran). ‎As a result of the evolution use of water in those countries (by irrigation and ‎storage projects), with the absence of mutual agreements that determine...

Aspects of Public Administration in Iraq Current Problems and Reform Proposals

In order to adjust with changes that occur at the local, regional and global level, there is a need for fundamental changes in management within government institutions and studying means to offer these in benefit toward services and goods. This requires the adoption of a modern concept of administrative...

A Union in the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons From Europe

Cycles of oppressive government, poverty, nationalism, extremism, economic and political instability and ethno-sectarian violence in a geographic area of vague definition. These characteristics are only some of the terms commonly used to describe the Middle East and North Africa region today. However, a mere hundred years ago, these same...