Review of The Monument: Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, by Kanan Makiya.

Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents identifies two waves of organized crime in Iraq: One took advantage of the collapse of the state and of the breakdown of social control; the other was defined by political ambition and the need to find resources for militias.

An all-day seminar on October 3 planned for a post-Saddam Iraq, the first in a series of such conferences.

Saddam Hussein is behind bars, but what of administering justice? The Iraqi Governing Council has decreed that Iraqi war criminals will be tried by an Iraqi tribunal. But who will gather the evidence? Who will judge? And is Iraq ready for the complex, demanding process required to judge one...

The Iraq embassy in Washington is a symptom of many problems with interim Iraqi president Ayad Allawi.

The transition from tyranny to freedom is far more difficult when people who must learn to make free decisions do not know their real history. When Nazi Germany was occupied by Allied forces at the end of World War II, all official documents were brought to a central location...

Review of Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco, by David L. Phillips.

Hassan Mneimnehwill join AEI as a visiting fellow researching al Qaeda and other jihadist organizations, with an eye toward tracking their online presence and ideological evolution.