Ali Najat: writer and researcher specializing in Middle Eastern affairs and Islamic movements.
Salafi-jihadi movements are based on strong and attractive leadership. A review of the history of Islamic movements in the last century in the Middle East and North Africa shows that the leadership factor, especially the charismatic leader,...
In 2017 the office of the National Security Advisor published the Iraqi Cybersecurity Strategy (ICS), marking the first substantial and public effort by the Iraqi state to analyze the deficiencies in national cyber policy; drawing a road map for the construction of a cyber suprastructure for the nation to...
Hamid Redha Ibrahimi / Journalist specializing in the affairs of the Arab world and the Middle East
Introduction:
The 2021 elections have changed the compass of the political equation in Iraq to a large extent. As it turned the scales of decision-making in the favor of previously marginalized forces, bringing them...
Dr. Bassem Ali Khreisan / Professor at the College of Political Science – University of Baghdad.
Global Firepower GFP has provided a unique analysis of data on 140 modern military forces since 2006. The GFP rating is based on each country's potential ability to wage war over land, sea, and...
Dr. Muhannad Hamid Mahidi/University of Anbar.
Executive Summary:
There is shortsightedness in the Iraqi state, as its intervention in economic life through expansionary fiscal policy has increased significantly since the change in 2003, and thus the state has moved away from the supposed corrective role.
The new role of the international financial...
Ahmed Hamed Al-Hathal / economic researcher.
Introduction: The Open Budget Survey report of the International Budget Partnership (IBP) team presents the seventh assessment since the launch of the Open Budget Survey in (2006) in (117) countries, and given that the publication of the (2019) report coincided with the “Corona” pandemic,...
There is no doubt that the Fourth Industrial Revolution represented by artificial intelligence has made an important difference in various political, economic, and social fields. Technological developments have played a major role in accelerating the process of economic growth around the globe. The world, especially the industrially advanced countries,...
Abdulaziz Alawi Al-Issawi/ researcher specializing in electoral affairs and democracy studies.
The sudden Russian attack on Ukraine (although it was the most dangerous it has faced since World War II), but it does not represent the first crisis to strike the country, which has gone through several tremors throughout its...
Aqil Saeed Mahfoudh / researcher and academic
The international envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, said that the main parties to the Syrian war “feel the need to test something new,” and that they are “ready to engage” in the “step-by-step” initiative for a solution/settlement in Syria; Raising the ceiling of...
Past Iraq-India relations: India has had relations with West Asia since prehistoric times. In ancient times, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization had thriving trade relations, and the Islamic period expanded civilizational, cultural, and historical ties. The connection of Indian Muslims with Iraq increased from the late eighteenth century....
