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This is a list of my published work since 2020. It is updated regularly but not all of my work is included here because of confidentiality, exclusivity or non-publishing agreements.
2025
The Commercial Judicial System in Iraq (not online)
The Fight for Political Supremacy in Iraq’s Judiciary
Iraq Walks a Tightrope into the New Trump Era
Economic and Demographic Challenges Facing Iraq (not online)
The Legacy of Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
Developments in Iraq’s Formal and Informal Economy (not online)
Integrate, Normalize, or Fight: Choices Facing the Shia Armed Factions in Iraq
Apathy and Skepticism Cloud Iraq’s Upcoming Election
2024
The Costs of War Extend Far Beyond Gaza
One Fix for Policy Dysfunction in Iraq: Critical Research Skills
Empowering Change in Iraq: Policy Recommendations for a New Era
Challenges for Iraq’s Non-Alignment Foreign Policy (not online)
Iraq’s Prime Minister Is Visiting the White House. What’s at Stake?
Iran and Iraq Are Competing Over Leadership of Shiite Islam After Sistani
A Better U.S. Mission in Iraq: Fight ISIS, Invest in the State
Perceptions of the Council of Representatives Regional Offices in Iraq (not online)
How Trump Can Make Things Worse in the Middle East
Booktalk podcast: God’s Man in Iraq
2023
Roundtable: Generation Iraq: The Iraq War’s Legacy of Harm
Regime Change Needed to Happen. The Iraq War Did Not.
The Mechanisms of Corruption in Iraq
Corruption in Iraq, a Generation Later
Shia Power Comes of Age: The Transformation of Islamist Politics in Iraq (co-editor)
Iraqi Prime Minister Sudani Has Achieved a Fragile Stability. Real Change Remains Elusive.
Partners in Peace Research: Participatory Research Training Pilot with Young People in Mosul, Iraq (co-author)
Iraq’s Provincial Elections: Electoral Dynamics & Political Implications
Corruption is the Lifeblood of Politics in Iraq
God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
2022
Reintegration of former PMF fighters in the Basra region (not online)
Sadr’s Scenarios to Break Iraq’s Political Stalemate
A Summer of Danger for Iraq—With Little Hope for Change
The Trouble With Muqtada al-Sadr
When Everyone’s a Shia Islamist, How Should We Understand Shia Politics? (co-author)
Can a New Government Save Iraq?
2021
Confusion and contention: Understanding the failings of decentralisation in Iraq (co-author)
The Vatican Comes to Najaf, Meeting Power and Piety
Biden’s Chance to Avoid Old Wars and New Pitfalls in the Middle East
Protest Vote: Why Iraq’s Next Elections Are Unlikely To Be Game Changers
Invest in Iraq’s Potential – or Pay for its Neglect
Analysing the Protest Movement’s Current Trajectory
Reconsidering the Security Sector in Sinjar and the Ninawa Plains (not online)
Iraq Needs a Grand Bargain to Halt Its Downward Spiral
Political Economy Analysis of the federal Commission of Integrity (not online)
2020
In Iraq, Protests Pose an Existential Challenge to the Political Elite
How Soleimani’s Assassination Is Upending Iraq’s Foreign Policy
TCF World Podcast: Rupture in the Iraq–America partnership
Escalation nation: Iraq and the US-Iran rivalry
Iraq’s unsustainable status quo
Iraq, Iran, and the spectre of US sanctions (co-author)
Failure of Governance in Basra puts all of Iraq at Risk
Iraq Still Might Force the United States Out
Time for a reset: Iraq’s new prime minister and the US-Iran rivalry
With ISIS Resurgent, Can Iraq’s New Government Avoid a Repeat of the Past?
Torn between two allies: How Europeans can reduce Iraqi dependence on Iran and the US
Economic Drivers of Youth Political Discontent in Iraq (co-author)
Struggling Iraq Faces Another Crisis in COVID-19