Renad Mansour of Chatham House breaks down Iraq’s power networks and the PMUs

Renad Mansour, senior research fellow and project director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House, discusses the origins, impacts and trends in Iraq’s protest movements; the influence and role of the US and Iran in Iraqi politics and security; the normalization of Iraq’s foreign policy; how network analysis informs our understanding of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units; and the challenges to incremental reform in Iraq. 

• Networks of Power | Chatham House
• Biden unlikely to turn back in Iraq (al-monitor.com)
• Iraq's PM calls for national dialogue (al-monitor.com)
• Flurry of Sunni Triangle ops sparks questions over Islamic State (al-monitor.com)
• Iraqi president gives priority to job opportunities for youth, calls corruption 'political economy of conflict' (al-monitor.com)