{"title":"The Future of the Kurdistan Regional Government: Options and Obstructions","authors":"Cfs CollegePS","doi":"10.31271/JOPSS.10015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31271/JOPSS.10015","url":null,"abstract":"In order to discuss the future of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the possibilities of forming the ninth cabinet thanks to the results of the fifth session of the Kurdistan Parliament elections on 30/ 9/ 2018, (Future Research Center) and (College of Political Sciences) The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) organized a joint scientific meeting entitled (The Future of the Kurdistan Regional Government: Options and Obstacles) on Thursday 25/10/2018 in the conference hall of the Sheraton Hotel.","PeriodicalId":201792,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Political and Security Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123822352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Perilous German Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1943: Operation MAMMUT","authors":"Sherzad Ameen","doi":"10.31271/JOPSS.10007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31271/JOPSS.10007","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with a secret German operation of an intelligence nature called Operation Mammut that dates back to 1943 during World War II. The importance of this study stems from scrutinizing an historical fact related to the efforts made previously in the framework of seeking to resolve the Kurdish issue and the independence of Kurdistan by means of intelligence and military. The study adopted an historical approach in order to draw political and security lessons that could be a light for a more accurate scientific understanding of the Kurdish issue in Iraq and its resolution in the future.","PeriodicalId":201792,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Political and Security Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126571663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Auditing Performance of the Kurdistan Parliament of Iraq for the 2nd and 3rd Rounds (A comparative study)","authors":"أیوب طیب","doi":"10.31271/JOPSS.10010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31271/JOPSS.10010","url":null,"abstract":"One of the main characteristics of distinguishing and recognizing an active and dynamic legislative body is the strong role of such institution in observing and scrutinizing government policy and administration of the political system because the parliamentary observation process is one of the crucial pillars of the parliamentary activities in the world. In order to check the strength of parliament; we need to study the supervision ability of the legislature. This study analyses the ability of the Kurdish Parliament supervision processes in the second and third Parliamentary sessions (through 2005-2-13), and then based in those data’s and information that the authors possess and some scientific evaluations that illustrates by the studies in this field, especially those measures have taken by (IPU), the study compare the observing capability between the both sessions. In the sake of demonstrating the extent of which the parliament of Kurdistan region has been capable in scrutinizing the government policy, this study discusses the parliament of Kurdistan region observation capacity in four sections and presents some proper suggestions as well.","PeriodicalId":201792,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Political and Security Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115491888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Intellectual Environment for the Incubation of Extremism and Terrorism and the role of universities in standing against it intellectually and scientifically","authors":"Abdulhussin Shaaban","doi":"10.31271/jopss.10008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31271/jopss.10008","url":null,"abstract":"Extremism has become rampant in many societies, including some advanced societies, albeit in the old days of humanity. However, though “globalization,” the scientific revolution and tremendous development of information technology, communications, and digitalism, it is a global threat that could not have been measured a few decades ago, whether in the depth of its impact, its speed and vast outreach, until the whole world became a “space” for the virus of the terrorism. It is no longer just a danger to civil and community peace, but has become a global threat to international peace and security. Extremism becomes material when it moves from theory to practice, from thought to reality, let alone if religion is used as an excuse to abolish, exclude and impose opinion by force, violence and terrorism outside the rule of law and the judiciary. The phenomenon of extremism has spread the occurrence of violence and terrorism, which hit the Arab and Islamic countries at their core. It threatens fragmentation, if not division, which sometimes takes a social character, particularly when it finds a suitable environment for hatching eggs. This research highlights a number of core topics, including: Trilateral extremism, fanaticism and terrorism, and the ideological environment that incubates terrorism. In advocating both new ideas and discourse, through approaches to dry out and confronts it intellectually, politically, legally, socially, educationally and religiously, in addition to the security and intelligence front without forgetting the media and civil front, especially the participation of civil society.","PeriodicalId":201792,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Political and Security Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122293136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Intelligence in the Foreign Policy of States","authors":"یوسف گۆران","doi":"10.31271/JOPSS.10011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31271/JOPSS.10011","url":null,"abstract":"This research has been inspired by the hypothesis that the intelligent agency will be more effective and important during the security threats. This research tries to answer the main question which is related to how the states are able to invest their intelligent institute at the service of their foreign policy, as well as some other replies to some minor questions. This research is divided into three main sections; section one is dedicated to introduce foreign policy and intelligence as well as identifying the main objectives. The second section of the research shows the functions of intelligence in the States Foreign Policy. The third section is about the relationship between intelligent institution and foreign policy decision makers.","PeriodicalId":201792,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Political and Security Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129780020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}