Iraq's Investment Spending Deficit: An Analysis of Chronic Failures
Dec 21st, 2018The 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, 2018Since 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, 2018It has now been over a year since the liberation of Mosul by Iraqi government forces in July 2017. The...Read more
The 2018 Iraqi Federal Elections: A Population in Transition?
Jul 10th, 2018The Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), second report in the three-part election series, "The 2018 Iraqi Federal Elections:...Read more
Iraq Votes 2018: Election Mobilization Strategies
May 29th, 2018This report—the first in a three-part series dedicated to pre- and post-election developments and government formation—evaluates the trends in electoral...Read more
Toward Economic Recovery and Food Security in Post-DAESH Iraq: A Framework for Governance Moving Forward
Dec 7th, 2017Conflict drives farmers from their land, disrupts economic activities, and prevents people from access to markets. It threatens food security...Read more
Iraq's Economy after ISIS: An Investor's Perspective
Nov 6th, 2017Iraq's potential as a post-conflict investment opportunity has slowly improved since the fall of Mosul in 2014, but political and...Read more
Water Resources Management in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Oct 19th, 2017While water crises are commonly framed as natural hazards or the result of suboptimal economic outcomes, they are quite often...Read more
Obstacles and Opportunities for Entrepreneurship in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region
Jul 19th, 2017In the context of the AUIS Entrepreneurship Initiative (AEI), this report, written by IRIS fellow Aaron Bartnick , points to...Read more
Getting Peshmerga Reform Right: Helping the Iraqi Kurds to Help Themselves in Post-ISIS Iraq
May 17th, 2017This report was produced jointly by IRIS and the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) . The author, Samuel Helfont ,...Read more
Fifth Annual Sulaimani Forum Proceedings
Apr 30th, 2017Now in its fifth year, the Sulaimani Forum is a high-level policy conference that explores issues facing the Middle East...Read more
IRIS Booklet Series: The State of the Economy
Mar 16th, 2017The following is a series of IRIS Iraq Reports (IIR) on the economy of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)...Read more
IRIS Booklet Series: Post-ISIS Iraq
Mar 16th, 2017This booklet consists of is a series of articles and reports on Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)...Read more
Statehood in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq through an Economic Lens
Feb 5th, 2017The viability of an independent Kurdish state has engaged policy experts and scholars for decades. Many, Iraqi Kurds and foreigners...Read more
Internal Displacement in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Impact, Response and Options
Jul 7th, 2016On May 16, 17, and 18, Chatham House , in partnership with IRIS, hosted a policy workshop on the IDP...Read more
Sinjar after ISIS: Returning to Disputed Territory
Jun 21st, 2016Image Source: Le Carabinier 2016 In May 2016, IRIS Director Christine van den Toorn, journalist and Jamestown Foundation analyst Wladimir...Read more
Reporting on Minorities Across Iraq in Arabic & Kurdish Press
Apr 7th, 2016IRIS, with the support of Free Press Unlimited (FPU), conducted an assessment project looking into the state of minority portrayal...Read more
Kurdistan's Great Recession
Dec 10th, 2015IRIS Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Mark DeWeaver, emerging-markets fund manager and ISX investor, independent economist, and author, has published a report...Read more
Iraq & KRG Energy Policies: Actors, Challenges, and Opportunities
Sep 14th, 2015Former IRIS Fellow and current Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Department, Dr. Bilal Wahab, published a report titled 'Iraq...Read more
Challenges and Opportunities in post-ISIS Territories: The Case of Rabia
Aug 31st, 2015W hat is IIR? The IRIS Iraq Report (IIR) offers on-the-ground reporting and analysis on Iraq’s most pressing issues. It...Read more
Needs Assessment of Arab IDPs & Refugees
Aug 27th, 2015IRIS partenered with the Gaziantep-based Syria Research and Evaluation Organization (SREO) to publish an assessment of the situation of Arab...Read more
IDP Crisis in Sulaimani Governorate: Registration, Protection, Access to Services
Apr 26th, 2015On April 28, 2015, top officials from various bodies in the Sulaimani Governorate, as well as several UN agencies, local...Read more