The Unity of the Nation and the Global State / Jawad Ali Kassar
Iraq the Nation, Iraq the State... Who Shapes Whom? / Dr. Amer Hassan Fayyad
Building the Nation and Building the State: Who Comes First? / Dr. Ali Taher Hamoud
The Modern State and Nation-Building in Iraq: The Crisis of Origin and Beginnings / Dr. Ali Jawad Watout
The Problematic Presence of the State and the City in Modern Iraq / Dr. Muhammad Atwan
The Impact of Regional Conflict on the Formation of the Iraqi Nation / Saeb Khader
Ideology, the Nation-State, and the Non-State Nation / Hussein Al-Adly
The Psychology of the Iraqi Nation / Dr. Aqil Habib
A State Without a Nation / Dr. Abdul Sattar Jabr
The Imagined Nation / Ali Hassoun
The Concept of the Iraqi Nation: A Nation of Slogans or a Nation of Services / Dr. Salem Al-Atwani
The Evolution of Nationalism in Germany and Iraq / Murtadha Al-Saadi
Iraq and Turkey: The Problem of the Evolution of the Concept of State and Nation / Dr. Mu'ayyad Jabir
The Iraqi Nation Project: The Question of Possibility / Dr. Abdul Amir Kazim Zahid
Is Iraqi Society Apolitical? / Translated by: Mustafa Al-Faqi
The History and Future of the Iraqi Nation / Translated by: Musa Ashrshor
Population Groups Influencing the Development of Future Groups in Iran / Translated by the Baghdad Center
Defining the Turkish Nation / Translated by: Tariq Khaqan
The labors of continuity and extinction...the decline of nationalist and sectarian forces awaiting the birth of nationalism / Saman Noah
The Concept of the Nation between Religion and History / Ali Al-Saedi
With the Chairman of the Shura Council of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Dr. Ayad Al-Samarrai
State and Nation in Iraq: The Controversy of Absence and Presence / Dr. Alaa Hamid
One Iraqi Nation... and Three Groups!
Abbas Al-Anbouri
I was struggling with the editorial team while writing this article, due to the emotional and confusing nature of dealing with the term "nation," until I reached my last opportunity to postpone writing.
Here, the inevitable must be addressed. Although the editorial board has struggled and exerted every effort in its attempt to deconstruct the concept and term, and to investigate its roots, by reviewing different viewpoints to uncover what has been confusing, all in an attempt to achieve the content after establishing the theory. This was achieved through the commissioning and translation of the elite who have written about and in it.
However, I still believe that there is an overlap and complexity between the term “nation,” whether Iraqi, Persian, American, or otherwise, and other terms such as “nationalism” or “national identity.” These include, for example, an overlap in the essence and possibility of realization, formation, and shaping, in the causes and circumstances—I mean all of those terms, of course.
I have written, and the best colleagues have written - those I know and others who are not from me among the researchers - about the dimensions of the search for deconstructing meaning - I mean the nation - or finding it in (the Iraqi), individuals and groups, or even (components) as our politicians, may God protect and preserve them, express it!