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Research Papers

Baghdad’s options in protecting Iraqi communities in the West: Sexual orientations as a model

Raed Shihab Ahmed - Professor of Political Science, Iraqi University Introduction The issue of homosexuality is not new, but its increasing spread may generate government reactions in Muslim-majority countries and others popular with Arab and Muslim communities in Western countries. Although the enactment of laws is a purely internal issue, the...

Saudi-Israeli normalization and its repercussions on the Middle East

Ahmed Matar - Researcher Introduction On September 15, 2020, the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel signed a peace agreement in the White House under American auspices, within the so-called Abrahamic agreements, which were the first normalization agreement with (Israel) after the Camp David agreement in 1977 and the Wadi Araba agreement in...

Turning climate change threats into opportunities

Azzam Alloush - researcher Introduction In recent years, Iraq has witnessed frequent and escalating dust storms and increasing temperatures in Iraq and the region (3 to 5 degrees Celsius, compared to the 1960s). We have seen multiple droughts in the past two decades, and even snowfall and rainfall appear to be...

Social movements in the Federal Republic of Germany

Asaad Al-Oghaili - Researcher specializing in security and strategic studies introduction In recent years, social movements have witnessed a great spread in the social and political circles in Germany, although they have historically been closely linked to left-wing parties and currents, they are currently the cornerstone of right-wing parties and currents...

New strategic balances in light of US military moves in Syria and Iraq

Ali Bashar Bakr Aguan - Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science / University of Mosul In light of the return of the conflict on the Syrian geography to the regional and international front, and with the escalation of Russian-Iranian movements in the theater of operations, the United States of...

The dangers of artificial intelligence to Iraqi national security

Zeina Malik Araibi - Researcher Introduction The international community is on the cusp of a paradigm shift like national security threats, and a major change that represents a historic turn in the nature of security, as a result of the technological developments and innovations achieved by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which...

Iraq and the BRICS bloc between the keys to entry challenges

Abdul Samad Saadoun Abdullah - Iraqi researcher Executive summary Currently, Iraq, despite having the stimulating qualifications to join the BRICS, faces obstacles and challenges in economic and political arrangements, which are not expected to be attractive in its short- and medium-term invitation to join unless it works to develop a plan...

The political agreement of the Iraqi forces to face difficult tests: The beginning is from Kirkuk

Alaa Al-Hamdani - Iraqi researcher Introduction The agreement of the Iraqi political forces within the coalition of state administration, under which the current government headed by Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani was formed, is going through difficult tests that began with the events witnessed in the province of Kirkuk during the last days...

Political parties in Iraq: Labor when it ends

Haidar Abdul Murshid - Researcher Introduction: Talk about the centrality of parties in political work in the modern state may be unmeaning, and in democracies in particular, Al-Bayan Center has previously written about political and democratic parties, and the need for parties to exist as an integral element of democratic political...

Federal Council Law: Constitutional Entitlement and Legislative Balance Requirement

Dr. Ali Mahdi - Vice President of the Baghdad Center for Legal and Economic Development The Iraqi Constitution of 2005 stipulated the composition of the legislative authority in the House of Representatives and the Federation Council, a structure adopted by most federal countries worldwide. In this structure, the House of...