Political Systems and Public Policy

Academic Staff

Feb. 16, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
Hajar Bashir Kalari Sadoon
Hajar Bashir Kalari Sadoon (PhD) Academic Staff
Assistance Professor
Assistant Professor in Political Sciences- Middle East Politics

Political Systems and Public Policy
College of Political Sciences
University of Duhok
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  • B.Sc. University of Salahaddin, Erbil 2000
  • M.Sc. Nottingham Trent University, UK 2010
  • PhD. University of Exeter , UK 2018

1- Comparative Political Systems (5 years)

2- Foreign Policy (1 year)

3- Introduction to Political Systems (2 years)

4- Global Issues (3 years)

5- Critical Theories in International Relations (3 years)

6- Introduction to Political Sciences)

7- Globalization (1 year)

8- Ancient Political Thought (1 year)

1- Workshop: Building Research and Publication Capacity of Emerging Scholars in the

Kurdistan Region of Iraq, March 2024.

2- Workshop: BRITISH ACADEMY WRITING WORKSHOPS ROUND II, December 2024.

3- MA Examinations: Paradiplomacy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Navigating. Isolation, Challenges, and Restraints in the Post-Referendum Era? UKH,2023.

4- The Effects of Terrorism on the Para-Diplomacy: The Case of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2014-2017, UKH, 2023.

5- Have constitutional discrepancies in Iraq's federal system from 2003-2017 created secession opportunities? UKH, 2023.

4- Türkiye’s Foreign Policy Toward Iraq (2014–2024), Soran University, 2025.

Research

Books

  • The Kurdish De Facto State: Foreign Policy Transitions and Trends\Kurdish Academy\Erbil\2020.

Publications:

  • From Foreign Relation to Foreign Policy: Transformation of the Kurdish de Facto State into an Independent Foreign Policy Actor, 2018.
  • The Kurdish De facto state: Foreign policy transitions and trends, 2020.
  • The Position of the Kurdistan Region within Iraq \Paper\2021.
  • The Stance of the European Countries on the Anfal Campaigns in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1988, Sweden and France as Examples, 2022.
  • Foreign Relations of the September (Eylul) Kurdish Revolution in Iraq 1961-1968, 2023.
  • The Islamic State and the independence referendum: The role of foreign policy in maintaining the de facto Kurdish entity in Iraq, 2023.
  • THE EFFECT OF AGE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MEMBERS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE KURDISTAN REGION OF IRAQ, 1992-2022, 2024.

Middle East Politics, De Facto States, and International Relations

1- The Role of the KDP in the Democratic Experiment of Iraqi Kurdistan (2003-2023)

2- The Effect of Unemployment on the Migration of Youth from Iraqi Kurdistan after the ISIS War in 2017