al-Rafidain Center for Dialogue (RCD) announces its sixth English publication (Iraq 2024: RCD’s Strategic Report
15 August، 2026
Regionally and internationally, Iraq confronted a complex strategic environment in 2024, imposing delicate challenges on Iraqi policymakers, who had to balance national security imperatives, diplomatic obligations, and economic interests while maintaining a policy of openness toward diverse international and regional actors.
In response to this intricate context, RCD’s Strategic Report (Iraq 2024) employs a comprehensive methodology that views the Iraqi state as an interconnected system whose components cannot be analyzed in isolation. Accordingly, the report offers a multidimensional strategic analysis grounded in qualitative assessments, quantitative indicators, official statistics, government documents, United Nations reports, and academic sources from Iraqi, Arab, and international scholars, thereby providing readers with integrated scholarly material that extends beyond descriptive accounts to include analysis, interpretation, and forecasting.