Iraqi Kurdistan’s Parliamentary Elections: Resilience, Challenges, and US Policy Stakes
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq finally held its long-overdue parliamentary elections on October 20, two years past the original...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Parliamentary Elections: Resilience, Challenges, and US Policy Stakes
A nation must think before it acts.
Kurdistan
The Future of the Kurdistan Region after the Defeat of ISIS and the Failure of the 2017 Independence Referendum
In 2017, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq held an independence referendum, which triggered severe backlash, including the loss of...
The Kurdish Struggle for Autonomy from the 1970s to the Present
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump called himself a “big fan of the Kurds” and also defended Saddam Hussein’s...
Systemic Crisis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
To achieve stability and prosperity, the Kurdish Region of Iraq needs to address the politicization of its institutions. This...
Getting Peshmerga Reform Right: Helping the Iraqi Kurds to Help Themselves in Post-ISIS Iraq
As the United States looks toward developing policies for a post-ISIS Iraq, preventing violence between Kurdish factions in Iraq...