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    Observations on some aspects of calls for Iraq to resort to international forums regarding the problem of the common international watercourses

    Haider Adham The Iraqi and Arab media circulated statements issued by Iraqi official entities, the Ministry of Water Resources, in which they expressed their intention to internationalize the “joint international watercourses file” for Iraq with the countries of the upper course after the latter cut off water supplies that flow...

    Railway link between Iraq and Turkey opportunities and challenges

    Omar Sameer The railway link between Turkey and Iraq was one of the ambitious projects since the era of Sultan Abdülhamid II, whose reign was the last reform attempt of the Ottoman state, including his inauguration of the Baghdad railway in financial cooperation with Germany, which continued slowly; Due to...

    Iraq and its chances of being a successful mediator between Iran and Saudi Arabia

    Hamid Redha Al-Ibrahimi For a while, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has been seeking to fill the role of mediator, and to open a closed channel of dialogue between Riyadh and Tehran; In order to ease the tension in the region, and play a leading role in providing political weight, represented...

    The final results of the Iraqi elections

    The Independent High Electoral Commission’s announcement of the final results of the elections on the 30th of November 2021 came to confirm the resolution of the election controversy and its results, which lasted 50 days, accompanied by rejection of the results, and objections to the entire electoral process. Announcing...

    Political opposition (how should it be?)

    Dr. Adnan Sabeeh Thamer There have been debates about the political opposition since the last parliamentary session (2018), in which the National Wisdom Movement, led by Ammar Al-Hakim, announced as the first force that explicitly indicated that it would choose the political opposition within Parliament, and promote a program that...

    Policy management: How does Iraq turn into an effective state in the region?

    How can Iraq turn into an effective state in the region, and what are the necessary requirements, and the existing or potential constraints, at home and abroad, and any possible horizon for that? In its approach to the subject, the analysis stems from the saying or the idea of ​​“managing...

    Iran and America: A reading of the options for dealing with the election results in Iraq

    Hameed Redha Al-Ibrahimi Since the outbreak of the October 2019 demonstrations in Iraq, the political map has witnessed a noticeable change. The first political transformation that occurred was the resignation of former Prime Minister “Adil Abdul-Mahdi” and the appointment of “Mustafa Al-Kadhimi” as his successor, and Al-Kadhimi, who is considered...

    Parliamentary Elections 2021 in Iraq (Survey)

    The current study had been designed to fit multiple segments of Iraqi society, through a survey consisting of nineteen main questions, addressed to 3.026 surveyed and quested individuals, who were randomly accessed through the national telephone book in all governorates, as representatives of the population of Iraq whose number...

    Kurdistan and the consequences of the possible isolation by Biden’s administration

             In recent months, Iraqi Kurdistan, like other points in Iraq, has become a scene of the proxy conflicts between Tehran and Washington. Rocket strikes and explosive Drones attacks on Erbil’s airport and even downtown Erbil will have negative effects on the stability and political role of the region....

    Moral factors and their impact on the measurement of State power

    The study highlights the measurement and analysis of the moral factors of Iraq and its neighboring States, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of those factors, and thus to rank them and compare them with each other, depending on some official data and indicators, to get results that would...