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    Parliamentary opposition and efficient legislative performance (Brief roadmap for parliamentary minority work)

    Dr. Emad Salah Al-Sheikh Daoud / researcher in public policies. The opposition, in its simple sense, is defined as the largest party, or coalition of parties that have not been able to form a government, and the opposition is sometimes called an "alternative government", and it has a range of...

    Iraq’s Shiites: The difficult choice for the president of the republic

    Hamid Redha Ibrahimi / Journalist specializing in the affairs of the Arab world and the Middle East Introduction: The 2021 elections have changed the compass of the political equation in Iraq to a large extent. As it turned the scales of decision-making in the favor of previously marginalized forces, bringing them...

    How India views Iraq and important areas of cooperation between the two countries

    Past Iraq-India relations: India has had relations with West Asia since prehistoric times. In ancient times, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization had thriving trade relations, and the Islamic period expanded civilizational, cultural, and historical ties. The connection of Indian Muslims with Iraq increased from the late eighteenth century....

    Egyptian-Iraqi Relations (Problems and Prospects for Resolving both sides)

    Omar Sami / a writer and researcher in political science. The Egyptian-Iraqi relations were proceeding distinctly at all levels, until the second Gulf War in 1991, and with the remnants of the skirmishes between the two projects (the Nasserist and the Baathist). Iraq was also very important to the Egyptian...

    Iraqi Society and the Complexities of Federalism

    Dr. Sahar Harbi Abdul-Amir/ Senior Political Adviser at the Iraqi Ministry of Education.          The choice of the system of government in any country must be a natural product of the movement of society, keeping pace with its requirements and gradual with its history, otherwise, there will be no great...

    Basra-Aqaba Oil Pipeline

    Dr. Mustafa Al-Naji/ researcher and academic  Executive Summary          The extension of the oil pipeline (Basra-Aqaba) occupies exceptional importance in the ongoing dialogues between the political, economic, and social elites. There was a lot of controversy about its feasibility and goals for Iraq, and for this reason, the search for...

    The Effect of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on Iraq CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

    Hadeel Harbi Thari/ Ph.D. Researcher China launched the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, with a high pace of its economic growth, and a growing dependence on foreign markets, raw materials, fuel, and other resources from overseas; To complete its great economic achievements, which constituted a strategic entry point for it; In...

    Observations on some aspects of calls for Iraq to resort to international forums regarding the problem of the common international watercourses

    Haider Adham The Iraqi and Arab media circulated statements issued by Iraqi official entities, the Ministry of Water Resources, in which they expressed their intention to internationalize the “joint international watercourses file” for Iraq with the countries of the upper course after the latter cut off water supplies that flow...

    Railway link between Iraq and Turkey opportunities and challenges

    Omar Sameer The railway link between Turkey and Iraq was one of the ambitious projects since the era of Sultan Abdülhamid II, whose reign was the last reform attempt of the Ottoman state, including his inauguration of the Baghdad railway in financial cooperation with Germany, which continued slowly; Due to...

    Iraq and its chances of being a successful mediator between Iran and Saudi Arabia

    Hamid Redha Al-Ibrahimi For a while, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has been seeking to fill the role of mediator, and to open a closed channel of dialogue between Riyadh and Tehran; In order to ease the tension in the region, and play a leading role in providing political weight, represented...