Sunday, September 3, 2017

Musings On Iraq In The News


I contributed to this opinion piece "Is a Genuine Saudi-Iraqi Reconciliation in the Works?" for the Carnegie Middle East Center. I was mentioned in “Tal Afar’s problems won’t end after Islamic State” by Paul Iddon for Rudaw. I was cited in "Fracturing of the State: Recent Historical Events Contributing to the Proliferation of Local, Hybrid, and Sub-State Forces" by Andras Derzsi-Horvath with Erica Gaston for Global Public Policy Institute.

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Review Oles Smolansky with Bettie Smolansky, The USSR And Iraq, The Soviet Quest For Influence, Duke University Press, 1991

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