Iraq’s Economic Collapse Could Be Biden’s First Foreign-Policy Headache

By Farhad Alaaldin, Kenneth M. Pollack A new Iraq crisis is the last thing that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden needs. Unfortunately, it may be the first foreign-policy problem he has to face. Iraq is headed for a financial collapse, and in its current fragile state, fiscal ruin is likely to bring down its rickety political system, which could then ignite yet another round

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GIZ-PSD Iraq and Iraqi Economists Network (IEN) Joint Initiative to Promote Young Iraqi Economist researchers – Remider an Extension of the Deadline

CALL FOR PROPOSALS   The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federal enterprise with worldwide operations. GIZ supports the German Government in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. GIZ is also engaged in international education activities around the globe. Through our work we assist people and societies i

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Hawraa F. Al-Taee. Child Labor in Iraq (MA Thesis)

IEN is publishing Child Labor in Iraq thesis to bring attention to the fact that child labor has risen in Iraq due to poverty and wars. It is critical for academia, researchers, and governmental institutions to devote serious effort and focus to develop long term solution to such issue which would affect individual child future and the society as a whole. ABSTRACT One in

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Federalism and Iraq’s Constitutional Stalemate. By Raad Alkadiri *

This paper assesses the ongoing constitutional battle over the devolution of powers in Iraq and looks at the possibility of a long-term solution. The issue of federalism in Iraq has been hugely disruptive since the establishment of the post-2003 state. Although the 2005 constitution backed a devolution of powers to regions and provinces, flaws in the document and the need fo

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