UPCOMING EVENTS There are no Upcoming Events scheduled for this series PAST EVENTS Remaking Iraq  

As the struggle for a free Iraq continues, the debate over the shape of post-Saddam Iraq roils on.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Event Summary  |  Full-length video | Transcript  Progress and Peril in Postwar Iraq  

AEI is pleased to host Senator John Cornyn (R-Tex.) on June 10 to speak on the establishment of the rule of law in Iraq.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Full-length video  Constitutional Issues and Federalism  

Is Iraq ready for a constitution that would vest all Iraqis in their nation, but divest ethnic and religious leaders of their traditional political and economic powers?

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  The Road to War  

This event previews the American case for war in Iraq; AEI scholars Danielle Pletka, Thomas Donnelly, and Reuel Marc Gerecht join the presenters to moderate and answer questions.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Transcript  Post-Saddam Iraq: Territorial Integrity, External Security, and Internal Security  

Saddam Hussein's appeal, insofar as he ever had any, was as a strong central power, willing to subjugate Iraq's intractable minorities (and its important Shiite majority) into more pliant Iraqi citizens.

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Event Summary  |  Transcript  De-Ba'athification Programs and the Dismantling of the Mukhabarat  

This event explores how Iraqi reformers can wrench the economy, the government, the educational system, and Iraq's civil society from the Ba'ath party's hands.

MATERIALS:    Transcript  Demobilizing, Reforming, and Rebuilding the Iraqi Armed Forces & Dismantling and Transforming Iraq's Military Industries  

How can the world's fourth-largest military be demobilized without causing widespread unemployment and social unrest in Iraq?

MATERIALS:    Documents and Links  |  Event Summary  |  Transcript  Democracy for the Arab World  

Shafeeq Ghabra, professor of political science and the director of the Center for Strategic and Future Studies at Kuwait University, addresses the question of democracy for the Arab world.

MATERIALS:    Event Summary The Day After  

Policymakers, defense analysts, and foreign policy specialistsconsider a host of critical questions to ensure that Iraq’s totalitarian system is not reborn under different leadership.

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