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    Emerging forces and electoral law: Options to avoid the Sainte-Laguë equation

    Abdulaziz Aliwi Al-Essaawi: An academic specializing in electoral affairs. Introduction: Talking about electoral laws other than a proportional representation with the Sainte-Laguë mechanism is no longer viable in the current stage after the Council of Representatives passed on March 20, 2023, the third amendment to the law of elections of the...

    Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Collapse: Reading on global causes and Ramifications

    Marwan Salem Al-Ali: College of Political Science, University of Mosul Introduction The fallout from the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) or so-called "Silicon Valley" began to spread worldwide, the largest bank to go under since the global financial crisis of 2008, raising fears of a worldwide banking crisis. The bank's...

    Iraqi Youth: Economic Determinants and main constraints

    Ahmed Khudair Hussein-director of the Department of social studies at Al Bayan Center for studies and planning. The economic determinants facing Iraqi youth are deepening to exacerbate political and social instability, heavy dependence on the economy of the supplier of oil revenues, inequality, distributive justice, misalignment between education outputs and...

    Analysis study of Iraq’s draft federal budget for the fiscal year 2023

    D. Ali Abdulrahim al-Aboudi: A researcher in political economy Summary The approval of the budget for three consecutive years represents a new advantage, a gesture that can rid the Government of the problem of not approving budgets. Moreover, the Budget Act explicitly applies to the Government's program. It also contains more...

    The Turkish and Iranian Military Intervention in Northern Iraq: Causes, Consequences, and Options for the Iraqi Political Decision Maker

    Adnan Abdul Amir Mehdi Al-Zubaidi: Tikrit University College of Political Science Introduction: International relations throughout history have been characterized as either conflict, cooperation, or international competition, especially in strategic regions of the world, which have been of interest to geopolitical scholars such as Mackinder and the theory of the heart of...

    Eight years coming without a Tishree protest? The fate of protests in Iraq

    Adnan Sobeih Thamer/Researcher specializing in speech anthropology The protest movements in Iraq face the fate of their non-repetition, on both levels: the first is their tools, and the other is their generation. The protests in Iraq are not similar to their different times. They are always associated with different slogans...

    The resurgence of ISIS in Syria and its security implications for Iraq

    Ali Najat - Writer and researcher specializing in Middle Eastern affairs and Islamic movements. introduction The emergence and rise of the Islamic State in 2013 marked the beginning of a new jihadist era, as the group declared a far-reaching goal of establishing an Islamic state, or caliphate, based on intensely extremist...

    Iraqi DefenceProcurement: Challenges, Reform, and Institutionalisation

    Introduction The Iraqi state has faced a multitude of existential security challenges since the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of 2003. Insurgency, sectarian violence, and most recently the threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Da’esh, have all contributed to a continued degradation of the security...

    Women In Emerging Parties: What Has Changed?

    Hiyam Ali - Researcher at Al-Bayan Center - Department of Women’s Studies   The effects of long decades of wars and internal conflicts have been reflected in political and social life in Iraq. Twenty years after the democratic transition process, Iraq still falls within the hybrid democratic system, or partially authoritarian...

    The window for selling foreign currency in Iraq between response and necessity

    Ali Abdul Rahim al-Aboudi is a researcher specializing in political economy Synopsis: The reliance of Iraqi decision-makers on a single function to sell hard currencies according to a fixed exchange rate led to the formation of a fallacy idea that oil revenues will maintain the sustainability of oil prices, which led...