The Middle East has witnessed a number of regional crises with intense complexity due to the great number of active agents involved especially because they went beyond the national borders to enter the regional domain. Hence, these crises have taken international dimensions. Due to the great number of these crises, the study has focused on the prominent ones such as those following what is so called the Arab Spring in 2011, namely the Syrian crisis, the Yemen crisis and the Gulf crisis in 2017. The latter is basically represented by diplomatic boycott with Qatar by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and other states such as Egypt, in addition to imposing economic blockade. Moreover, the Middle East region has encountered great challenges when Donald Trump became the president of the USA in 2017. This has created some crises which can be attributed to Trump’s foreign policy including the withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with Iran, declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, moving the Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which represented a clear challenge to the Islamic World. This reality has imposed on Iraq the handling of these crises due to the ties Iraq keeps with the states of crises either geographically, historically or due to bilateral interests. On this basis, the Iraqi administration relied on the principles of good neighboring, brotherhood ties and interests with these states. Therefore, it refused to interfere in the internal affairs of other states, particularly the military intervention and all other coercive forms of interference. In light of this, the study aims to explore the stance of the Iraqi administration and its official discourse vis-a-vis the crises the Middle East region is passing through. To achieve this objective, the study adopts the descriptive analytical approach as it describes the existing situation and analyzes the relations among variables to be associated and explained to arrive at conclusions. The most important findings of the study include the fact that Iraqi decision makers have recognized the severity of these crises and their future negative consequences. Therefore, they adopted the non- alliance policy to avoid involvement.
Meziane Mames (Tue,) studied this question.