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Iraq: back to the future / Alkadiri, Raad

Alkadiri, Raad	Journal Article
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2011.

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The world breathed a sigh of relief at the announcement of a new Iraqi government on 21 December 2010. After nine months of wrangling following the 7 March elections, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki finally engineered a deal that kept him in place at the head of a 42-person cabinet. Maliki was unable to name a full coterie of ministers; ten of the portfolios, including the main security ministries, are being managed on a temporary basis by other ministers until permanent nominations are made. Nevertheless, approval of the cabinet brought to an end a crisis that left the political system in limbo and saw a deterioration of the security situation.

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Security ; Iraq ; Future ; Kurdish ; Sunni ; Shia ;
Peaceful Politics

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Iraq's federalism quandary / Kane, Sean; Hiltermann, Joost R; Alkadiri, Raad

Hiltermann, Joost R	Journal Article
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2012.

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WITH U.S. combat troops out of Iraq and that country facing an uncertain future, many challenges hover over the lands of old Mesopotamia. The most ominous is the unsettled struggle over power, territory and resources among the country's political elites. While often described in straightforward ethnic and sectarian terms, this strife has gone through many phases. Various alliances have come together and broken apart as the power struggle has shifted from a sectarian street war to heightened tensions between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil. Most recently, the main axis of confrontation has been between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shia-led government and its putative governing partner, the mostly Sunni Iraqiya list.

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Federalism ; Iraq ; Kurds ; Kurdistan Regional Government ; Mesopotamia ; Baghdad ;
Sunni ; Gulf War - 1991 ; Kurdistan Region

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