Displacement and Iraq's Political Marketplace: Addressing Political Barriers to IDP Return
At the peak of the fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2017, at least 5.8 million people...
Iraq Economic Review: First Edition
**تتوفر ادناه نسخة من المقال باللغة العربية** There is a growing sense among the Iraqi populace that the economy is irreparably broken. Over the past...
Iraqi Women in Civil Society
This report argues that throughout Iraq’s continued attempts to transition to democracy, women’s rights actors have faced significant challenges to further women’s participation in a...
Protestors and Civil Society Actors in Iraq: Between Reform and Revolution
This report argues that the protest movement emerged spontaneously and represents a novel kind of social movement in Iraq, pushing the boundaries of what constitutes...
Living Apart Together: Decentralized Governance in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
After the reunification of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in 2005, the region was governed under a power sharing coalition dominated by the Kurdistan Democratic...
Running Out of Options: Why Iraq’s Elite Fails to Address Protest Demands
This piece analyses past and present elite responses to protests for insight into how al-Kadhimi can forge a better path ahead. It argues that the...
The Power of Local Ties: Civilian Resistance to Sectarian Displacement in Iraq
In February 2006, Ahmed Sharif’s (names of individuals have been changed to preserve anonymity) quiet life in the Hayy al-Jamaa neighborhood of western Baghdad changed...
Assessing Iraqi Kurdistan's Stability: How Patronage Shapes Conflict
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has generally lacked the security incidents common throughout the country since 2003. Yet, tension between the main political parties...
Iraq’s Political Marketplace at the Subnational Level: The Struggle for Power in Three Provinces
Since 2003, analysts have conceptualized Iraqi politics from the standpoint of the national scene in Baghdad. From this perspective, power dynamics in Iraq are understood...
The Failure of Reconstruction in Mosul: Root Causes from 2003 to the Post-ISIS Period
This report addresses the root causes of the failure of reconstruction in Mosul between 2003 and the present. Since the first days of the post-2003...
