Democratic Governance and Coherent Nationalization in Modern Iraq (2003- 2015)

Authors

1 Professor, University of Tehran

2 University of London

Abstract

Democratic state-building can be seen as the most important need for a new Iraq. In the years since the occupation of Iraq, state-building has faced signs of ethnic and identity challenges. Challenging forces influenced by a number of regional and international actors have attempted to influence the issue of national identity, thereby expanding Iraq's structural challenges. The process of state-building and nation-building in Iraq is shaped by various social, political, and elite elements of action. During the Ba'athist rule, Iraqi elites gained their status through partisan hierarchy. In this process, different ethnic groups could play a role in the political structure of Iraq. The political crisis in Iraq is currently in a situation that has avoided any signs of political conflict between the elites belonging to different cultural, ethnic, and political groups. In an environment of ethnic, religious, and religious conflict, the elites have a difficult task of building. For this reason, new state-building relationships in Iraq will not be possible without regard to the role of the elites in the process of controlling ethnic and emotional forms. So the main question of the research is, "What are the characteristics of the elite in the process of democratic state-building in Iraq, and what is the process of state-building in it?" And elite solidarity is achieved in the process of social institutionalization. " Democratic governance in Iraq requires a methodology based on "data analysis" as well as "content analysis". This study uses a composite approach and in addition to collecting descriptive data, content analysis and interview templates have been used and interviewed with some Iraqi elites on the process and indicators of government building in Iraq.

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