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    The unemployment problem in Iraq after 2003, realities, causes, implications, and public policy options

    Unemployment is an economic, social, psychological, political, and security problem, and unemployment has an impact on mental and physical health, as a large proportion of the unemployed (They lack self-esteem, feeling of failure, feeling less than others, studies have shown that some of them are dominated by boredom, and...

    Iraq and the potentials of ISIS resurgence to return to the scene

    After the Iraqi government declared the defeat of ISIS in 2017, and despite its erosion, this terrorist group continues to pose a threat to Iraq's stability and security, operating within square one as it did in 2013 when it had not occupied any geographical area in Iraq.          ISIS seeks...

    Hunger in Iraq. Reading in World Hunger Index 2020

    The Index issued in 2020 includes (107) States disaggregated by the values of the indicators mentioned previously. The Index did not include countries for which data were not available, many high-income countries, countries with small populations, and non-independent regions. Overall, hunger worldwide is at a moderate level by Index, yet...

    The development dimension of the privatization of the educational sector in Iraq

    A law regulating employment and investment in the educational sector was introduced after 2003. Nevertheless, there seems to be an absence of strategy, vision, and perception in dealing with the privatization of the educational sector and its investors and defining the roles assigned to them, as well as facilities...

    The water crisis in Iraq

    International watercourses are among the hottest issues on the international scene, Owing to the differences between the source and downstream States, the most notable of which are the disputes over the rivers in the Middle East region in general, and the rivers in question in particular, Iraq's water resources...

    Manipulation methods and means of fraud threaten early elections

    The upcoming legislative elections, scheduled to take place on 10th October 2021, are the most mysterious electoral experiment since the first elections in early 2005, for several reasons relating to its new law, which has never been applied in Iraq, the conditions for the formation of the Independent High...

    Reducing environmental pollution and climate change

    The reduction of environmental pollution and climate change has been an issue of increasing international concern since the rise in the level of threat and hazards to life and human future on the planet, which has been exacerbated by the rapid and dramatic expansion of the ozone hole in...

    The Solid Alliance!… The balance of tenor and power between Syria and Iran

    When the Syrian war broke out in March 2011, Iran was almost the only country on which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could rely with great security and confidence. Iran has entered Syria based on critical and sensitive assessments of the demands and loathes of the war. The main title...

    Moral factors and their impact on the measurement of State power

    The study highlights the measurement and analysis of the moral factors of Iraq and its neighboring States, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of those factors, and thus to rank them and compare them with each other, depending on some official data and indicators, to get results that would...

    Iraq in the World Freedom Index 2021

    Since 1973, Freedom House has evaluated the state of political and civil rights worldwide, and its Global Freedoms Index is regularly used by policymakers, journalists, academics, activists, and many others. Freedom House classifies people's access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 States and territories through its annual Freedom...