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Governance Without Legitimacy: The Kurdish Region’s Descent into Stagnation

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For more than three decades, particularly since 1991, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has been presented as a semiautonomous polity with its own institutions and an ethnically distinct identity. But beneath that veneer of autonomy lies a more troubling reality.  Corruption has deteriorated the region, and it is not an aberration in the Kurdish… Continue reading Governance Without Legitimacy: The Kurdish Region’s Descent into Stagnation
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