Navigating Iraq’s Future: Human Security and Climate Change

School of Government, Luiss Guido Carli, 23/03/2023

23 March 2023, 10.30 – 12.30 (CET)

School of Government, Luiss Guido Carli, Viale Pola 12

Over the last two decades since the 2003 invasion, Iraq has shown extraordinary resilience in the face of the multiple challenges to which it has been confronted. From the civil war and the surge of ISIS to the Covid-19 pandemic, despite numerous forecasts of its imminent collapse, Iraq has endured. Today, climate change constitutes one of the main threats to the country and could possibly trigger new conflicts both between local communities and at the regional level. This lecture will review some of the major developments that shaped Iraq’s recent past and look into the possible effects of climate change on the country’s future.

Moderating:

  • Prof. Luigi Narbone, Director of the Mediterranean Platform, Luiss School of Government
  • Nedra Cherif, Senior Researcher at the Mediterranean Platform, Luiss School of Government

Speakers:

  • Prof. Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Prof. Marashi, is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos and visiting professor at the IE University School of Global and Public Affairs in Madrid, Spain. He obtained his doctorate in Modern History at University of Oxford, completing a thesis on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, part of which was plagiarized by the British government prior to the 2003 Iraq War, otherwise known as the “Dodgy Dossier.” His research focuses on 20th century Iraqi history, and currently is focusing on the effects of climate change on the nation. He is co-author of Iraq’s Armed Forces: An Analytical History (Routledge, 2008), The Modern History of Iraq (Routledge 2017), and A Concise History of the Middle East (Routledge, 2018).

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