Iraq

As host of Gulf Cup 27, Saudi Arabia won its first trophy in over 20 years while demonstrating how sports can project soft power and foster connections.

On September 30, AGSI hosted a private roundtable with H.E. Fuad Mohammed Hussein, foreign minister of the Republic of Iraq.

As U.S.-led coalition forces withdraw from Iraq, Baghdad is confronting the political bargains that allow armed factions to defy the state.

As the September deadline for the U.S. troop drawdown approaches, Iraq’s period of comfortable neutrality is ending, but the country’s policymakers should not rush into unsustainable alignments.

A strong relationship with the GCC acts as a stabilizing force for an inherently fragile Iraqi state. But to maintain this, Iraq needs to pair sophisticated regional diplomacy with assertive control over the nonstate actors operating within its borders.

On June 8, AGSI convened its Petro Diplomacy conference for the 12th consecutive year.

On June 4, AGSI and the National Museum of Asian Art co-hosted a screening of “The President’s Cake.”

On May 12, AGSI hosted a discussion on the new government in Iraq.