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    Iraq Development Road Project: Diplomatic Stakes with Strategic and geopolitical dimensions

     Faras Abbas Hashem - Basra University/Faculty of Law Introduction: At the outset, Iraq became aware of the need to develop new visions of ideas that would frame its position on geopolitical changes in the current regional and international environment. and constitutes an impetus that can be based on the orientations of...

    After the recent clash, how will Iran deal with the Taliban?

    Although the sudden and incalculable clash between Afghan and Iranian border guards has stalled, fear of another conflict still looms in other areas of the Iranian border. As retired Iranian Foreign Ministry diplomat Syed Mahmoud Sadri discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and the reasons for their arrival...

    NATO Air Police and Operation Return to the Square

    Dr. Atheer Nadhem Al-Jasour - Faculty of Political Science/Al-Mustansiriya University Summary: After the year (1989) the West-East conflict ended in theory or under what has been addressed by researchers and scholars in international relations and international politics due to the triumph of the capitalist camp led by the United States of...

    From political Islam to political Shiism

    Ali Al-Madan - Iraqi writer and researcher Summary: This article presents, based on historical methodology, an analytical monitoring of the thinking of Iraqi Shiite Islamists in political action and their definition of their political identity within the state, and their transition from internationalist Islamic thinking in the utopia of the Islamic...

    Eight years coming without a Tishree protest? The fate of protests in Iraq

    Adnan Sobeih Thamer/Researcher specializing in speech anthropology The protest movements in Iraq face the fate of their non-repetition, on both levels: the first is their tools, and the other is their generation. The protests in Iraq are not similar to their different times. They are always associated with different slogans...

    Military and security: (Variance of training with assignments)

    Haider Abdul Murshed - researcher Introduction  The philosophy of security management in Iraq has always been hostage to the political mood; For the nature of the system and what it wants from the security establishment, protect the state or the incumbent? This confusion has negatively affected the composition of the security institutions...

    Iraq’s internal and external challenges in 2023

    Mustafa Darraji - researcher Introduction Since 2003, successive Governments in Iraq have inherited many problems and challenges, including those inherited from the previous regime, including new problems that accompanied regime change. The transition phase should have included plans that address many of the problems associated with the transition from dictatorship to...

    Iraq’s electoral systems and party preferences: (The controversy of the recent election law)

    Nabeel Jabbar al-Ali - researcher Disputes have returned in Iraq over the content of the electoral law regulating the process of holding parliamentary elections earlier. The demands first came from the protest arenas at the end of 2019, expressing part of their demands to reject the context followed in the...

    The mixed electoral system and the tripartite stability in Iraq

    Mustafa Al-Sarai- researcher in political affairs Political pluralism is one of the basic principles of democracy, which believes in a society dominated by the principle of respect for the will of the majority, the preservation of the rights of the minority, and the difference of opinions and interests, this coalition...

    The shift in Japan’s defense strategy Timing, semantics and implications

    Ahmed Matar-researcher In October 2022, Japan unveiled a new national security plan that refers to the largest arming of the Japanese army since World War II, doubling defense spending and deviating from the peaceful road entrenched in its constitution, in the face of increasing threats from regional adversaries, as well...