CIAO DATE: 01/2014
December 2013
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
A decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall, Iraq still lacks a centralized foreign policy that advances its national interests. Internal divisions, such as those between the Shia-dominated regime in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil, have given rise to alternative power centers with their own policy priorities. Iraqi foreign policy will remain disjointed and incoherent until Baghdad resolves the issues polarizing the country.
Resource link: Iraq's Tangled Foreign Interests and Relations [PDF] - 304K