Iraq (2004) | Iraq Needs a Federalist System of Government

Only a creative federalist political system tailored to the Iraqi people’s needs will succeed.

Democratizing Iraq may prove to be a nightmare unless we build on the nation’s inherent factionalism by developing a democratic political system that fully reflects Iraqis’ communal, social, and “religious” diversity. Only through some form of federalism, whereby Iraq’s three main factions—the Kurds, the Shiites, and the Sunnis—enjoy equal constitutional protection while exercising self-rule, will the country become a stable democracy.

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