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 | FEDERALISM AND IRAQ'S CONSTITUTIONAL STALEMATE By Raad Alkadiri
The implementation of federalism in Iraq is a divisive political issue that has
coloured relations between the central government and both the Kurdistan
Regional Government (KRG) and Iraq’s individual provinces. The form and
substance of power-sharing arrangements, and the extent to which sovereign
authority should be devolved, have been in constant dispute since the
establishment of the post-2003 ...Read more > | 27 Pages 324.31 KB |
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 | STRATEGIC DIALOGUE: SHAPING THE IRAQI-U.S. RELATIONSHIP By Anthony H. Cordesman
The first round of this Iraqi and U.S strategic dialogue that took place on June 11, 2020. It was
held via video teleconferencing between Iraqi officials – led by Senior Under Secretary of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abdul Karim Hashem Mostafa – and U.S. officials – led by U.S. Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale.
The result led to progress in several important ways. The dialogue took place because Iraq now
has a functioning government that focuses on both ...Read more > | 125 Pages 4.06 MB |
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 | IRAQ: ISSUES IN THE 116TH CONGRESS By Congressional Research Service
Iraq's unicameral legislature, the Council of Representatives (COR), voted to approve Prime
Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi’s government program in May 2020 and finished confirmation of
his cabinet in June, ending a months-long political vacuum. Al Kadhimi has billed his
government as transitional, pledging to move to early elections as soon as they can be held safely
and fairly. He has acknowledged and begun acting to address the demands of protestors, whose
mass demonstrations paralyzed ...Read more > | 48 Pages 3.40 MB |
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 | AN ENDURING AMERICAN COMMITMENT IN IRAQ By BEN CONNABLE
A clear-eyed look at the current situation in Iraq suggests
that 2020 could represent a turning point for U.S. policy.
Recent events have rendered the future of U.S. military
forces’ presence in Iraq uncertain. Iran, Russia, and China
are competing for influence in Iraq’s economic, political, and security sectors. Setbacks in Iraq-U.S. relations
should be viewed in the larger regional and global context:
American interests will suffer if strategic competition in
Iraq is abandoned. ...Read more > | 57 Pages 4.29 MB |
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 | WEIGHING U.S. TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ By BEN CONNABLE, JAMES DOBBINS, HOWARD J. SHATZ, RAPHAEL S. COHEN, BECCA WASSER
In this Perspective, we assess the possible strategic risks
associated with U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq and
recommend policies to help the United States meet its
strategic objectives in the Middle East. As of early 2020,
the United States has several thousand military personnel
in Iraq providing direct combat assistance to Iraqi security services and to U.S. forces in eastern Syria. Following
the targeted killing of Iranian Major General Qassim
Suleimani in January 2020, the Iraqi ...Read more > | 38 Pages 1.10 MB |
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 | US IMPERIALISM AFTER IRAQ By Jerry Harris
What is the future direction of US imperialism? The strategic choices being
debated by ruling elites are framed by the disaster in Iraq. And while the
exact outcome remains unclear, one thing is perfectly clear, the US has been
defeated in its Middle East invasion.To properly judge the US war we must remember its original goals. A
compliant pro-US government, a totally privatized economy run mainly ...Read more > | 32 Pages 514.13 KB |
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 | IRAQ : ANNUAL COUNTRY REPORT 2019 By World Food Programme
Throughout 2019 in Iraq, WFP continued to work to meet the needs of vulnerable people, across the context of the
humanitarian, development and peace nexus. WFP distributed food and cash-based assistance to displaced
persons and refugees in camps, helped people rebuild their lives through work and training opportunities, and
provided healthy meals to children in schools. In 2019, the last year of the Transitional Interim Country Strategic Plan,
WFP reached 711,639 people, 85 percent of the ...Read more > | 66 Pages 3.59 MB |
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 | THE EVOLUTION OF THE ISLAMIC STATE CONFLICT By Paul Rogers
Events in Iraq and Syria during October – not least the desperate battle for Kobane and a spate of executions in Iraq’s Anbar province – have demonstrated the limitations of aerial attack by the coalition of Western and Arab states in ...Read more > | 4 Pages 110.91 KB |
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 | ISIL IN IRAQ: A DISEASE OR JUST THE SYMPTOMS By Munqith M.Dagher
It is a big mistake if we think that ISIL is a disease ,It is really a symptom of the Real disease which is Sunni’s suffering and frustration since 2003
Actually ISIL has a deep contradiction with its Sunni ...Read more > | 41 Pages 1.88 MB |
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 | SHALE GAS AND TIGHT OIL By AL TRONER
At the end of July 2014, a crude oil tanker began the long journey to a buyer in South Korea— the first unrestricted sale, outside of Canada, of unrefined American oil since the ...Read more > | 139 Pages 4.25 MB |
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 | THE AIR WAR AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE By By Anthony H. Cordesman
These questions have become more, not less, important over the last few months. Two months into the air campaign, it has had some effective but seems to be doing too little, too slowly, failing to have the impact needed in ...Read more > | 43 Pages 1.77 MB |
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