Iraq Papers
Women, Law and Climate Resilience: Closing the Gap in Iraq’s Legal Framework
Alannah Travers with Sama Yas, Ahang Habib Hawrami and Yahya Ihsan Jabery, December 2025
Al-Hawizeh Women Struggling Amid Marsh Eradication: A Case Study of Al-Bu Khassaf Women in Maysan, Southern Iraq
Safaa Khalaf, Farah Salim, Abdul Salam Khanjar and Afrah Almatwari, December 2025
Visual Resilience: How Iraqi Women Photographers Reframe Climate Resilience Through Counter-Archiving
Khamael Al Safi, Zainab Mahdi and Noor Omer, December 2025
Adapting to Change: Climate Displacement, Gendered (Women) Challenges, and Pathways to Empowerment in Iraq
Raed Aldulaimi, Dahab Aglan, Hasan Azeez and Firas Salih, December 2025
Austerity and Resistance: The Public Salary Crisis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Winthrop Rodgers, December 2025
Ruptured Atlas: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Spatial Storytelling for Survivors of Genocide (The Case for Yazidis in Iraq)
Sana Murrani, Kimbal Bumstead, Zoé Paris, Ghazi Murad Ismael, Jameela Barakat Rasho and Omeed Khider Joqey, July 2025
The Shifting Landscape of Iraq’s Judiciary: Increased Judicial Activism, Centralisation and Politicisation after 2017
Iraq Watch Group, February 2025
Big Bad Wolf, or Is It? Iran’s Economic Footprint in Iraq in Context
Ahmed Tabaqchali, January 2025
Insecure Leaders: How Elite Infighting May Facilitate the End of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
Zmkan Ali Saleem, December 2024
The UN’s Humanitarian Transition from Emergency Assistance to Development Funding in Iraq: The Politics of Delivering Aid in a Country of Protracted Post-Conflict Displacement
Alannah Travers, May 2024
A Fistful of Dinars: Demystifying Iraq’s Dollar Auction
Ahmed Tabaqchali, April 2024
The Competition for Control in Sinjar: How External Actors and Local Interests Inhibit the Sinjar Agreement
Zmkan Ali Saleem, January 2024
Mapping the Unseen: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge through Participatory Mapping to Address Displacement and Housing Challenges in Post-Invasion Iraq
Sana Murrani, December 2023
The Trouble with Halbousi: The Rise of, and Resistance to, Iraq's Sunni Strongman
Simona Foltyn, October 2023
Higher Education in Iraq After 2003: Ongoing Challenges
Ilham Makki, October 2023
Towards Hydro-Transparency on the Euphrates-Tigris Basin: Mapping Surface Water Changes in Iraq, 1984–2015
Michael Mason, Zeynep Akıncı, Arda Bilgen, Noori Nasir and Azhar Al-Rubaie, October 2023
The Yazidi Genocide: A Demographic Documentation of ISIL’s Attack on Tel Qasab and Tel Banat
Valeria Cetorelli and Sareta Ashraph, September 2023
Protectors of the State? The Popular Mobilisation Forces During the 2022 Post-election Crisis
Simona Foltyn, April 2023
Changing the System from Within? The Role of Opposition Parties in Consolidating Democracy in Iraq Post-2019
Taif Alkhudary, March 2023
Challenging Narratives of ‘Fate and Divine Will’: Access to Justice for Gender-Based Violence in Iraq
Taif Alkhudary, Marwa Abdul Ridah, Anfal Abed & Amal Kabashi, December 2021
Undemocratic Parties in a 'Democratic' System: The Formation and Operation of Political Parties in Post-2003 Iraq
Omar al-Jaffal, October 2021
‘Basra is Burning’: The Protests in Basra Governorate, 2018–20
Omar al-Jaffal & Safaa Khalaf, October 2021
The Social Logics of Protest Violence in Iraq: Explaining Divergent Dynamics in the Southeast
Benedict Robin-D'Cruz, August 2021
Failing Flows: Water Management in Southern Iraq
Azhar Al-Rubaie, Michael Mason and Zainab Mehdi, July 2021
Local Policing in Iraq Post-ISIL: Carving Out an Arena for Community Service?
Jessica Watkins, Falah Mubarak Bardan, Abdulkareem al-Jarba, Thaer Shaker Mahmoud, Mahdi al-Delaimi, Abdulazez Abbas al-Jassem, Moataz Ismail Khalaf & Dhair Faysal Bidewi, July 2021
Basra Governorate: A Locality in Crisis – Local Government Crisis and Conflict with the Federal Government
Omar al-Jaffal & Safaa Khalaf, May 2021
Protest Vote: Why Iraq’s Next Elections are Unlikely to be Game-Changers
Sajad Jiyad, April 2021
Destructive Creations: Social-Spatial Transformations in Contemporary Baghdad
Omar Sirri, February 2021
Confusion and Contention: Understanding the Failings of Decentralisation in Iraq
Ali Al-Mawlawi & Sajad Jiyad, January 2021
Is Demography Destiny? The Economic Implications of Iraq's Demography
Alexander Hamilton, November 2020
Assessing Iraqi Kurdistan's Stability: How Patronage Shapes Conflict
Zmkan Ali Saleem & Mac Skelton, July 2020
Iran in Iraq: The Limits of ‘Smart Power’ Amidst Public Protest
Jessica Watkins, July 2020
The Business of Recycling War Scrap: The Hashd al-Shaʿabi’s Role in Mosul’s Post-Conflict Economy
Isadora Gotts, May 2020
The Political Economy of Economic Policy in Iraq
Alexander Hamilton, March 2020
Iraq's Yazidis and ISIS: The Causes and Consequences of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Zeynep Kaya, November 2019
Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces: The Possibilities for Disarmament, Demobilisation & Reintegration
Hayder Al-Khafaji, November 2019
Public Payroll Expansion in Iraq: Causes and Consequences
Ali Al-Mawlawi, October 2019
Response to and Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Iraq: The Case of Shiʿa Turkmen Survivors in Tel Afar
Güley Bor, October 2019
A Fragmented Landscape: Barriers to Independent Media in Iraq
Aida Al-Kaisy, June 2019
Satellite Sectarianisation or Plain Old Partisanship? Inciting Violence in the Arab Mainstream Media
Jessica Watkins, April 2019
Iraq's Disputed Internal Boundaries after ISIS: Heterogeneous Actors Vying for Influence
Mac Skelton & Zmkan Ali Saleem, February 2019
Iraq's 2018 Government Formation: Unpacking the Friction Between Reform and the Status Quo
Renad Mansour, February 2019
Iraq Synthesis Paper: Understanding the Drivers of Conflict in Iraq
Toby Dodge, Zeynep Kaya, Kyra N. Luchtenberg, Sarah Mathieu-Comtois, Bahra Saleh, Christine van den Toorn, Andrea Turpin-King & Jessica Watkins, October 2018
The 2018 Iraqi Federal Elections: A Population in Transition?
Renad Mansour & Christine van den Toorn, July 2018