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    Right-wing populist parties and 2024 European Parliament elections: Opportunities and challenges

    Khudair Abbas Al-Dahlaki- Researcher specializing in Shan European far-right forces Introduction The European Parliament is the largest and most important democratic legislature for the representatives of some 500 million citizens of the European Union. The European Parliamentary Assembly was established in Strasbourg, France, in the presence of 142 members on 19 March...

    G20 Summit 2023: A Reading of Motives, Opportunities, and Future Implications

    Abeer Suhaim Mahdi - College of Political Science / University of Baghdad Ammar Hameed Yassin - College of Political Science / University of Baghdad Introduction: The major powers began shaping the global system and turning towards employing economic alternatives to compensate for the severe losses that most countries experienced in the aftermath...

    Libya’s 2023 Elections: Internal Obstacles and External Challenges

    Ali Saadi Abdul-Zahra Jubair - Al-Nahrain University - College of Law Introduction: Ever since the fall of Moammar Gaddafi, Libya has been marred by a lack of political stability. The country has seen 13 constitutional amendments in its quest to prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections. Consequently, Libya currently grapples with...

    A new Middle East is being formed

    Khaled Hashim - Researcher The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa) was not a promising economic-political diplomatic club, wanting a less dominant world for the West that did not include members from countries in the Middle East. This is no longer the case, of the six countries that recently joined...

    Baghdad’s options in protecting Iraqi communities in the West: Sexual orientations as a model

    Raed Shihab Ahmed - Professor of Political Science, Iraqi University Introduction The issue of homosexuality is not new, but its increasing spread may generate government reactions in Muslim-majority countries and others popular with Arab and Muslim communities in Western countries. Although the enactment of laws is a purely internal issue, the...

    Saudi-Israeli normalization and its repercussions on the Middle East

    Ahmed Matar - Researcher Introduction On September 15, 2020, the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel signed a peace agreement in the White House under American auspices, within the so-called Abrahamic agreements, which were the first normalization agreement with (Israel) after the Camp David agreement in 1977 and the Wadi Araba agreement in...

    Social movements in the Federal Republic of Germany

    Asaad Al-Oghaili - Researcher specializing in security and strategic studies introduction In recent years, social movements have witnessed a great spread in the social and political circles in Germany, although they have historically been closely linked to left-wing parties and currents, they are currently the cornerstone of right-wing parties and currents...

    New strategic balances in light of US military moves in Syria and Iraq

    Ali Bashar Bakr Aguan - Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science / University of Mosul In light of the return of the conflict on the Syrian geography to the regional and international front, and with the escalation of Russian-Iranian movements in the theater of operations, the United States of...

    The complexity and chaos of foreign policy in the Middle East: The dynamics of the Saudi-Iranian

    Ahmed Jlobe Al-Mayahi - PhD student at the University of Tehran / Department of International Relations Introduction: This paper looks at the answer to the following question What are ways to improve the behavior of foreign policy actors in the Middle East? The Middle East has a special place in terms...

    Gulf-Russian summit goals, contexts, and developments

    Omar Samir - Egyptian researcher/student at Istanbul University's Ph.D. program Introduction: The Gulf-Russian summit held in Moscow on July 10, 2023, comes within the context of numerous Gulf international summits and the framework of international competition to support the Gulf oil states in the context of the ongoing conflict between East...