The Iraqi Parliament was presented with a draft of the country’s permanent constitution on August 28, almost two weeks after the original August 15 deadline. In his latest commentary on Iraq’s constitutional process, Nathan Brown analyzes the legal shortcomings of the process, the failure to achieve consensus, and the impact of the draft on the prospects for peaceful political reconstruction in Iraq.
Iraq's Constitutional Conundrum
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