The Struggle for Iraq's Future

Speaker: Zaid Al-Ali, International IDEA Discussant: Toby Dodge, LSE In this lecture, launching Zaid al-Ali’s new book 'The Struggle for Iraq’s Future', the author provides a uniquely insightful interpretation of Iraq’s nation-building progress in the wake of the 2003 war. Al-Ali argues that the 2005 constitution is illegitimate and established a system of government so extreme that it could never be implemented, creating a void that the country has been struggling to fill since. Recorded on Wednesday 7 May.