Abstract
Despite nearly nine years of military operations to tame intercommunal violence and create a new political order, Shiite and Sunni Arab political factions were still at loggerheads in early 2012, while the Kurds enjoyed a large degree of autonomy and economic prosperity. Two years after the March 2010 elections and after the last U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, three security cabinet posts were still vacant in May 2012, and the government was unable to control Iraq’s skies and international borders.1
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Ahmed, M.M.A. (2012). Future Prospects of the KRG. In: Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034083_12
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