The Kurds' Best Friends are in Baghdad
Recent events in the Middle East provide another reminder of how important it is that people can protest peacefully. In December, as many...
Scattered Across the Decades: The Philosophical Confusion of Iraqi Law
Should printing presses be licensed by the government? The answer is a good test of your posture towards authoritarianism and...
Iraq's Flawed Anti-Corruption Strategy
At the end of November, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi publicly declared a new “war on corruption” in Iraq. Given the timing of this...
Rosneft in the Kurdish Region: Moscow's Balancing Act
A version of this article with references is available on request as a PDF. Please email: iraqincontext@gmail.com Between February 2017...
Musings on Baghdad and Erbil: An Interview with Joel Wing.
As part of a series of articles on the Kurdish referendum crisis, we invited Joel Wing to discuss the aftermath of the vote. Joel has...
After the referendum: What next for the Kurdish Region?
The days surrounding the Kurdish independence referendum have been filled with feverish commentary, speculation and in some cases,...
Debating a National Settlement in Iraq
Writing in Haaretz recently, David Rosenberg recently noted that an independent Kurdistan would resemble Zimbabwe, rather than Dubai--...
Political Primacy, Strategic Risks, and ISIL after the Caliphate
One of the differences between states and non-state actors is a sense of permanence. Germany and Japan were completely defeated after...
Iraq’s foreign relations: testing democratic peace theory?
It has passed some observers by that Iraq is rigorously pursuing a multilateral foreign policy, based on building bridges in the region....
