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    Governance, constitution and law

    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...

    Optimal electoral system from the point of view of Iraqis (Opinion poll)

    Ahmed Khudair Hussain - Director Department of Social Studies, Al Bayan Center for Studies and Planning. Introduction Iraq has experienced multiple electoral systems in past years, characterized by some of the problems that accompanied each election cycle; In 2020, the Iraqi Council of Representatives made some amendments to the Electoral Code,...

    Iraq’s electoral systems and party preferences: (The controversy of the recent election law)

    Nabeel Jabbar al-Ali - researcher Disputes have returned in Iraq over the content of the electoral law regulating the process of holding parliamentary elections earlier. The demands first came from the protest arenas at the end of 2019, expressing part of their demands to reject the context followed in the...

    Positive and negative aspects of Iraq’s accession to The Hague Convention for the unification of the texts of private international law

    Nasrin Qahtan Abdul Razzaq-researcher and academic Introduction This research paper discussed the pros and cons of joining The Hague Convention on private international law in a comprehensive and concise manner, while presenting a set of proposed recommendations at a time when Iraq is seeking to regulate various international relations by developing...

    Towards a fair electoral system in Iraq by taking advantage of the Japanese experience

    Abdulaziz Aliwi al-Issawi Introduction It is no longer feasible to talk about the application of an electoral system that does not guarantee results in Iraq after the tremors that have hit the political arena in recent years, as it has become necessary to search for an electoral system that is commensurate...

    Political implications of federal court decisions: The crisis of the center and the territory (the renewal of the crisis threatens the “state administration”)

    Alaa Al-Hamdani-Iraqi researcher The decision of the federal court, which ruled on the twenty-sixth of January 2023 that (6) decisions of the previous government headed by Mustafa al-Kazemi (2020-2022) were invalid, sparked a wide political controversy after this decision ruled that the transfer of funds to the Kurdistan region was...

    Constitutional entitlements (activated): Federation Council, Vice-President and provincial councils

    Abdulaziz Aliwe Al-Isawi - Researcher Introduction  In September 2021, the Bayan Centre for Studies and Planning published a paper entitled "Disabled constitutional entitlements: The Federation Council, the Vice-President and the provincial councils "have talked about important constitutional entitlements frozen: the Federation Council, the Vice-President and the provincial councils in an attempt...

    Qatari Sports Diplomacy and Lessons That Iraq Can Benefit From

    Introduction The use of the concept of sports diplomacy has increased in the past two decades, and it has come to occupy a place within the evolving world of public diplomacy; To form a basis for building long-term relations between peoples. There has been some agreement that sport has become...

    Millennium Eunomia and Corruption Reduction Efforts

    Emad Salah Al-Sheikh Daoud - Professor of Public Policies / College of Political Science / Al-Nahrain University. Introduction: In the beginning, the sources of political philosophy and ancient political thought told us about the knowledge of the people of the antiquity of advanced types of participatory governance and law enforcement methods....

    Reserve Guarantee In Commercial Papers In Iraqi Laws

    Nour Al-Huda Bassem Ismail - researcher in legal accounting The reserve guarantee is one of the guarantees approved by Iraqi law in commercial papers, and it is one of the most frequent and widespread guarantees in practice. This is due to many reasons, including the expansion of the activities of...