Iraq

Baghdad’s Blank Slate

The massive development projects the Iraqi government has planned for the city seem designed to wipe it clean of its past memories.

  • Nabil Salih

The Iraq War’s Catastrophic Consequences

Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.

Iraq, Twenty Years Later

How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.

  • Simona Foltyn

9/11 Forever

The legacy of September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

  • Joseph Margulies

The Price of Vengeance

Settling the Cinematic Torture Debate

  • Alan A. Stone

War Is Betrayal, Redux

Any story of war is a story of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal, the poor.

  • Chris Hedges
with responses from
  • Roy Scranton
  • Chris Lombardi
  • Phillip Carter
  • William Treseder
  • Joyce S. Goldberg

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Fighting over the Same Ground

An Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran

  • David V. Johnson

Regime Change Doesn’t Work

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.

  • Alexander B. Downes
with responses from
  • Greg Grandin
  • Neta C. Crawford
  • James D. Fearon
  • Mary Kaldor
  • John Tirman
  • Tod Lindberg
  • Joanne Landy

Iraq’s Lost Generation

The war’s human toll.

  • Nir Rosen

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq.

  • Nir Rosen

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

  • Nir Rosen

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

  • Nir Rosen

Nuclear Freeze

The Middle East and global arms control.

  • Hans Blix

Anatomy of a Civil War

Iraq’s descent into chaos.

  • Nir Rosen

On the Ground in Iraq

The roots of sectarian violence.

  • Nir Rosen

Exit Strategy

How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months.

  • Barry R. Posen
with responses from
  • Barbara K. Bodine
  • Joseph R. Biden
  • Vivek Chibber
  • Russell D. Feingold
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Lawrence Korb & Brian Katulis
  • Helena Cobban
  • Christopher Preble
  • Eliot Weinberger
  • Nir Rosen

The Auditors

Bad intelligence and the loss of public trust.

  • Hugh Gusterson

In the National Interest

A grand new strategy for American foreign policy.

  • Stephen M. Walt
with responses from
  • Richard Falk
  • Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
  • Ervand Abrahamian
  • Khalil Shikaki
  • Naomi Chazan
  • Robert Vickers Jr.
  • Mahmood Mamdani
  • John Tirman
  • Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter

Iraq’s Chaos

Why the insurgency won't go away.

  • Ahmed S. Hashim

The Iraqi Shiites

On the history of America’s would-be allies.

  • Juan Cole

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock

The dangerous mix of economic and military goals in Iraq

  • Duncan Kennedy
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