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VIDEO: Experts Explore and Debate the Future of Iraq at October Conference
November 2, 2015
WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL: On October 8 and 9, 2015, the Law School’s Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, the Reves Center for International Studies, and the Comparative Legal Student Scholars hosted “The Future of …
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LECTURE: Constitutional Roundtable
October 28, 2015
Constitutional Roundtable presents Zaid Al-Ali, Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton University 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Friday, October 30, 2015 Solarium, Falconer Hall The Absence of Social Solidarity Amongst Arab Elites: Causes and Consequences of …
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VIDEO: Iraq’s summer of protest
August 28, 2015
ALJAZEERA: For the past six weeks, thousands of Iraqis across the streets of Baghdad, Basra, Najaf and other cities have been protesting electricity cuts amid soaring temperatures, rampant corruption and the government’s mismanagement of basic services …
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ARTICLE: Premature excitement about Iraq’s new government reforms
August 15, 2015
WASHINGTON POST: Following more than a decade of decrepit government performance and spurred by popular protests in many parts of the country, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed a reform plan on Aug. 8, which was thenexpanded and approved un …
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QUOTE: Is Abadi’s “Good Faith” Enough to Reform Iraq?
August 15, 2015
PBS: “One year on, everyone who knows Abadi likes him personally, and everyone believes in his good faith,” Zaid Al-Ali, an Iraqi attorney and author of “The Struggle for Iraq’s Future,” told FRONTLINE. “But he’s got little to show for it. I don’t thin …
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QUOTE: Sunni tribes in bitter rift over Isis’s Iraq gains
May 28, 2015
THE FINANCIAL TIMES: Other Iraqis say the focus on arming Sunni tribes skirts the real problem: the state’s inability or unwillingness to reform its security forces. Zaid al-Ali, author of The Struggle for Iraq’s Future, a book about rebuilding the cou …
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DEBATE: Iraq – The fall of Ramadi: IS militants take Anbar province capital (part 2)
May 25, 2015
FRANCE24: So much for jihadists on the backfoot. Islamic State militants have taken control of Ramadi, a development that exposes the continued weakness of government forces; those same forces who took credit for the recent recapture of Tikrit, but rel …
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DEBATE: Iraq – The fall of Ramadi: IS militants take Anbar province capital (part 1)
May 25, 2015
FRANCE24: So much for jihadists on the backfoot. Islamic State militants have taken control of Ramadi, a development that exposes the continued weakness of government forces; those same forces who took credit for the recent recapture of Tikrit, but rel …
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SEMINAR: Seeds of Discord: Constitutional Woes from Iraq to the Arab Spring
May 18, 2015
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL: What can the countries of the Arab Spring learn from the Constitutional missteps of Iraq? The Arab world has seen a historic moment of constitutional reform on the global stage, but so far reaped only modest benefits. Constituti …
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SEMINAR: How Do Constitutions Succeed?
May 18, 2015
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: This workshop brought together scholars engaged in constitutional design, as well as practitioners, to engage on a range of theoretical and mid-level problems concerning the defining and measurement of constitutions’ performance …
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