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The Dangers of Partitioning Iraq


Partitioning Iraq: Make a Detailed Case, or Cease and Desist

Iraq is once again in political turmoil, and once again we are hearing calls to partition the country into three ethno-sectarian ...

Partitioning Iraq: Make a Detailed Case, or Cease and Desist | RAND

The mostly non-Iraqi voices who want to divide the country into three ethno-sectarian cantonments—Shi'a, Sunni, and Kurd—owe the Iraqi ...

The Case for Soft Partition in Iraq - Brookings Institution

With President George W. Bush's surge strategy fully implemented, several major offensives are now underway to root out insurgents and improve security ...

The Dangers of Partitioning Iraq - LobeLog

by Wayne White. The spike in discussion about partitioning Iraq into Sunni Arab, Shia and Kurdish states is hardly surprising given the ...

Partition of Iraq - Wikipedia

The Partition of Iraq refers to a number of proposed geopolitical partitions of varying severity of the state of Iraq. Such a partition has been proposed in ...

A Balkan lesson : The dangerous idea of partitioning Iraq

All experience shows that regime reconstruction after regime destruction is a long, complicated and difficult process. This is particularly true ...

Iraq: the perils of partitioning - The Economist

The logic behind partitioning Iraq into a federation of three ethno-religious regions is that it would provide a solution to the ongoing ...

Partition of Iraq Won't Solve Terrorism - American Enterprise Institute

The issue isn't Sunnism; it's the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and any other Al Qaeda affiliate. If those promoting partition believe that changing ...

Why DC loves Biden's terrible plan to divide Iraq - Vox

The distinction between what Biden proposed (federalism) and what people think he proposed (partition) is worth understanding. Partitioning Iraq ...

Risks of armed confrontation, partition loom in Iraqi Kurdistan as ...

The widening chasm between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan raises fears of an armed showdown, ...

Iraq's Sectarian Crisis: A Legacy of Exclusion

Violence and tensions between Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds continue to threaten Iraq's stability and fragile democracy. Iraq needs a political ...

The Case For Dividing Iraq | TIME

As Americans search for answers, there is one obvious alternative: split Iraq into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shi'ite states.

Iraq: A Problematic Partitioning - CBS News

Joseph Biden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and George Washington University professor Amitai Etzioni. The ...

In Iraq, breaking up is hard to do - Le Monde diplomatique - English

Given near-insoluble national problems, long-standing Kurdish aspirations of independence, significant grievances among Sunni communities and a ...

The Right Way to Partition Iraq (If Necessary) - Brookings Institution

Iraq faces an existential crisis: the Sunni-dominated group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has declared itself "the Islamic State"; ...

The partition of Iraq and lessons to be learned from 1947

Sir Cyril Radcliffe did indeed have only five weeks to draw the boundary line between India and Pakistan but it is wrong to suggest that "ethnic ...

Partitioning Iraq? - The New Arab

With sectarian violence causing tragedies across the country, a plan to divide Iraq into regions is gaining traction – despite the ...

Iraq to split in three: So why not? - CNN

Joseph R. Biden, then a US Senator and now Vice President, to argue that it was time to split Iraq into three parts: Kurdish, Shia and Sunni.

Is the Partition of Iraq Inevitable? - VOA News

As Sunni jihadists continue to make gains in Iraq, Kurds have taken control of two oil fields in northern Iraq and have pulled out of the ...

Joe Biden's Plan to Partition Iraq Would Have Unleashed Chaos

Joe Biden has defended his vote in favor of the Iraq War, but his plan to divide the country along sectarian lines might have made a bad ...