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May 16, 2024 · We are, so to speak, witnessing an Iraq on the rise,” she said. However, she acknowledged challenges such as corruption, factionalism, impunity and armed actors remain significant...
May 16, 2024 · Today we are, so to speak, witnessing an Iraq on the rise. True, past decades of turmoil still impact the present. And yes, the challenges are manifold, with state institutions still fragile. But...
May 17, 2024 · “We are, so to speak, witnessing an Iraq on the rise,” she said, noting that corruption, factionalism, impunity, undue interference in State functions and armed actors operating outside State control remain.
- Asharq Al Awsat
May 18, 2023 · 18 May 2023 Peace and Security. Iraq’s stability and hard-won gains require robust support amid concerns of shrinking civic space, postponed elections, and an unfolding climate emergency, the...
Sep 7, 2022 · 7 Sep 2022. It looked to many Iraqis like the beginning of a civil war, but the fighting that broke out last week was over almost as quickly as it started. But there’s a difference between stable...
- Commentary: Politics in Iraq Are Completely Broken
- The Revolt Against The Elite
- How Did Iraq Get Here?
- Moqtada Al Sadr: A Weakened Populist
- What Is The Way Forward?
Iraq is now facing an unprecedented set of political challenges. Huge protests across the country since October 2019 pressured the prime minister, Adel Abdel Mahdi, into announcing his resignation in December. This was seen as a major victory for the youthful protestors calling for wholesale political change. The person nominated to replace him as ...
Iraq has been witnessing huge and sustained protests since October 2019. The protesters have been mostly young Shia who have demanded an end to the post-Saddam political system and a new system created in its place. Most of the largely youthful protesters were born after the end of the Saddam regime. They are not ex-regime cronies calling for a ret...
Three things are most important to understanding the present dismal state of Iraqi politics. One is the U.S. invasion of the country and the forces this fracturing of the Iraqi state unleashed. The second is the nature of policy-making power sharing that was created in the post-invasion period. The third is the role played by Iran in Iraqi politics...
One person who has positioned himself as the potential stabilizer in Iraq’s post-Saddam tumult has been the Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr. The scion of a very influential clerical family in Iraq, Sadr has played the role of populist nationalist in Iraqi politics since the U.S.-led invasion of the country. His Mahdi Army militia unsuccessfully challen...
Iraq is in crisis and the way out is very unclear. It has a political system based on quotas and consensus that has become a classic patrimonial system dominated by rent-seeking elites. There are many veto players in the system and an outsize foreign intervenor, Iran, that is very opposed to system change for fear of losing power and influence in a...
Jun 4, 2021 · 04 June 2021. Over the last two decades, Iraq has undergone civil war, occupation, a rise in sectarianism and a deep crisis of confidence in the state and its institutions.
