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The nature of the relationship between the civil state and constitutional documents in Arab states in general—and in contemporary Iraq in particular—prompts a number of questions. Chief among these is the overarching and persistent one of whether Iraq currently exists as a civil state or whether constitutional reforms are necessary to create a civil state.
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Amir Hasan Fayyadh
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Fayyadh, A.H., Abdulsattar, H.H. (2025). Opinion: Toward the Civil State? The Necessity of Constitutional Reform. In: Charountaki, M., R. Moore, J., Anderson, L. (eds) A Century of State-Making in Iraq. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76029-7_12
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