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Iraq Economic Review: Iraq’s Industrial Sector | Green Building | Ukraine war

Jun 15th, 2022

The June 2022 issue of the Iraq Economic Review includes an exclusive one-on-one interview with Iraqi green tech entrepreneur Basima...Read more

Iraq Economic Review: The Business of Education

Feb 8th, 2022

One goal of the Iraq Economic Review is to move beyond general commentary about the growth potential of a given...Read more

Expanding Access to Banks in Iraq: Challenges & Pathways to Reform

Sep 1st, 2021

One of the major obstacles to the development of the private sector in Iraq is the lack of access to...Read more

Relations Between Citizens and Security Actors in Five Iraqi Provinces

Jul 27th, 2021

Based on interviews and focus groups in five provinces (Baghdad, Basrah, Thi Qar, Ninewa, Kirkuk), this study examines the diverse...Read more

The Baghdad-Erbil Budget Divide

May 24th, 2021

The annual debate over the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s share of the federal budget in return for its contribution in...Read more

Displacement and Iraq's Political Marketplace

Feb 24th, 2021

At the peak of the fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2017,...Read more

The National Budget: Short and Medium-Term Prospects

Feb 14th, 2021

There is a growing sense among the Iraqi populace that the economy is irreparably broken. Over the past five years,...Read more

Why Did Protests Erupt in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Dec 22nd, 2020

In comparison to previous demonstrations in the KRI, the rhetoric of the December 2020 protests was more absolutist and its...Read more

Iraqi Women in Civil Society

Dec 17th, 2020

This report argues that throughout Iraq’s continued attempts to transition to democracy, women’s rights actors have faced significant challenges to...Read more

Protestors and Civil Society Actors in Iraq: Between Reform and Revolution

Dec 8th, 2020

This report argues that the protest movement emerged spontaneously and represents a novel kind of social movement in Iraq, pushing...Read more

Decentralized Governance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Nov 2nd, 2020

After the reunification of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in 2005, the region was governed under a power sharing coalition...Read more

Running Out of Options: Why Iraq’s Elite Fails to Address Protest Demands

Oct 22nd, 2020

This piece analyses past and present elite responses to protests for insight into how al-Kadhimi can forge a better path...Read more

The Power of Local Ties: Civilian Resistance to Sectarian Displacement in Iraq

Oct 16th, 2020

In February 2006, Ahmed Sharif’s (names of individuals have been changed to preserve anonymity) quiet life in the Hayy al-Jamaa...Read more

Assessing Iraqi Kurdistan's Stability: How Patronage Shapes Conflict

Jul 23rd, 2020

The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has generally lacked the security incidents common throughout the country since 2003. Yet, tension...Read more

Iraq’s Political Marketplace at the Subnational Level: The Struggle for Power in Three Provinces

Jun 23rd, 2020

Since 2003, analysts have conceptualized Iraqi politics from the standpoint of the national scene in Baghdad. From this perspective, power...Read more

Prisoner of the Deal: Nineveh’s Governor and Local State Capture

Mar 19th, 2020

After two years of political turmoil in Nineveh, the appointment of the retired general Najm al-Jabouri as governor created a...Read more

Why Iraq’s Protesters Won’t Go Home: 10 Voices from the Movement

Mar 3rd, 2020

Iraqi protesters’ resilience and commitment to their objectives have arguably been unmatched in Iraq’s modern history. To better understand the...Read more

The US Presence in Iraq: Emerging Positions of Iraqi Political Parties

Jan 10th, 2020

Amidst the ongoing policy conversation about US-Iran escalations and the consequences for the American presence in the region, scant attention...Read more

The Failure of Reconstruction in Mosul: Root Causes from 2003 to the Post-ISIS Period

Dec 1st, 2019

This report addresses the root causes of the failure of reconstruction in Mosul between 2003 and the present. Since the...Read more

Mosul and Basra After the Protests: The Roots of Government Failure and Popular Discontent

Oct 24th, 2019

Based on 50 interviews with key figures in Basra and Mosul’s government, private sector, and civil society (conducted by the...Read more

The Kurdish Duopoly: The Political Economy of Two-Party Rule

Oct 24th, 2019

The violence and political instability of the post 2003 era has generated a shifting set of alliances and blocs throughout...Read more

Basra's Protest Movement & Unemployment: Contesting Party Dominance of the Oil Sector

Jun 25th, 2019

In Basra’s mass protests of 2018, unemployment was central to the rhetoric and mobilization strategies of all the key political...Read more

Basra's Political Marketplace: Understanding Government Failure After the Protests

Apr 29th, 2019

To date, the policy discussion on Basra has revolved around whether or not the newly appointed central government under Prime...Read more

Reintegration of Combatants in Iraq after ISIL

Apr 4th, 2019

The campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) culminated on 9 December 2017 when Prime Minister...Read more

Analysis: Looking Back on the 2018 Kurdish Elections

Mar 14th, 2019

The 2018 electoral process - tainted by voter discontent, historically low turnout and allegations of electoral fraud - is a...Read more

Iraq's Disputed Internal Boundaries After ISIS: Heterogeneous Actors Vying for Influence

Feb 28th, 2019

Conflict between Erbil and Baghdad over the disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) has long been a central destabilizing feature of the...Read more

Iraq's 2018 Government Formation: Unpacking the Friction Between Reform and the Status Quo

Feb 26th, 2019

This report analyzes the 2018 government formation process in Iraq. It argues that the process is marked by two competing...Read more

Iraq's Investment Spending Deficit: An Analysis of Chronic Failures

Dec 21st, 2018

The proposed 2019 budget law brought into sharp focus systemic failures in the crafting of successive Iraqi governments’ economic policy...Read more

Regional Dynamics: What now for the US, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia?

Dec 9th, 2018

Since 2 October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to bolster his...Read more

Iraq Synthesis Paper: Understanding the Drivers of Conflict in Iraq

Oct 30th, 2018

It has now been over a year since the liberation of Mosul by Iraqi government forces in July 2017. The...Read more

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