Contributing to Mehran Kamrava’s Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics, Senior Research Fellow Fanar Haddad writes about social divisions in Iraq. The book seeks to demonstrate how the Persian Gulf’s current, complex politics is a product of interwoven dynamics rooted in historical developments, profound social, cultural, and economic changes, and inter-state and international relations among both regional actors and between them and the rest of the world. A link to the full book can be found here.

Image Caption: Iraqi women attend a social gathering in Hawrajab, Iraq, Feb. 6, 2008. Photo: Spc. Angelica Golindano / U.S. Army / via U.S. Department of Defense.