Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 08/2014

Iraq on the Eve of Elections

Marisa Cochrane Sullivan

March 2010

Institute for the Study of War

Abstract

This backgrounder provides an update on the political landscape in Iraq on the eve of parliamentary elections. The paper begins with a brief overview of the electoral process. The second part of the backgrounder documents the Shi’a, Sunni, and Kurdish political landscapes. This paper concludes with some considerations on the post-election period of government formation.