Abstract Based on Ali al-Wardi’s theoretical innovations, the article investigates the relatively new phenomena of the rentier state and society in Iraq as well as the ongoing political conflict between the different social groups and confessions as a battle about economic and financial resources related to the oil economy and to rent seeking. The discourse also highlights the
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In June 1919, aboard an Allied warship en route to Paris, sat Damat Ferid Pasha, the Grand Vizier of a crumbling Ottoman Empire. The elderly statesman, donning an iconic red fez and boasting an impeccably groomed mustache, held in his hands a memorandum that he was to present to the Allied powers at the Quai d'Orsay. The negotiations on postwar reparations started five months e
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One of the untold stories of the fighting in Iraq is the effect it is having upon the country’s economy. Almost two million internally displaced people, the loss of agricultural land in northern Iraq, foreign investors being scared off, the decline in trade, the collapse of several internal markets, and depleted financial reserves have all been reported in the press. This came
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Note of the Editor: This valuable study by the pioneer Iraqi economist Professor Mohammed Salman Hasan was published as contribution to the book titled “Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East from the Islam to present day” Edited by M. A. Coock, published by Oxford University Press in 1970 To download the study as PDF press here
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(CNN) -- Luay al-Khatteeb has spoken to CNN previously about the impact of ISIS' march through northern Iraq, and the militant group's control of some oil fields. The crisis has escalated, and CNN has revisited the conversation to find out how Iraq could crack down on ISIS' oil riches under the guidance of its new oil minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi. This is al-Khatteeb's analysis o
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