Ibrahim Al-Marashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3518739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ibrahim Al-Marashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ibrahim |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Marashi |
| SIGNATURE | AL-MARASHI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Marcos |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5643-5041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races
This forum highlights the disruptive implications of AI for the geopolitical landscape by examining its integration into command-and-control systems, military doctrines, and global security discourses. These transformations are embedded in core debates on spatial power projection, supply chain control, technological sovereignty, shifting international alliances, and the changing geography of innovation hubs. AI-assisted arms races are thus unders…
Depleted uranium munitions and the Ukraine war
Contrary to the contested use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons following the Iraq war in 2003, which led some nations to seek a ban on DU use and even eliminate their existing arsenals, there is now a growing tendency both toward the use and production of DU weapons, rendering such weapons as “normal” and “acceptable.” There is a risk of a DU renaissance as a consequence of the war in Ukraine. We argue that more attention is needed to the strateg…
Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration
This article argues that ethno-sectarian exclusion undermined the post-invasion attempts at security sector reform (SSR) in Iraq by the US and successive local governments. While corruption, poor management, improper training, and lack of equipment contributed to the collapse of the Iraqi military in the face of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria invasion in 2014, this article primarily examines how the exclusion of Arab and Turkmen Sunnis from …
Iraq’s popular mobilisation units
Can Nato evolve into a climate alliance treaty organization in the Middle East
NATO’s current security doctrine needs to change. It needs to enhance its political will and institutional capacity to manage climate change threats, both within the alliance itself and within the area most vulnerable to its southern flank: the Middle East. NATO will need to evolve into a CATO, a “Climate Alliance Treaty Organization,” that deals with the security implications of potential tipping points and develops policies in response. A case …
Nato and Collective Environmental Security in the Mena
The Covid-19 pandemic emerged as a global security risk, and national security institutions scrambled to manage a threat, not emanating from states or non-state actors, but from the environment. The pandemic serves as an empirical case to explore “anthropogenic strategic security,” or how security doctrines can anticipate and mitigate natural disasters, resulting from humanity’s exploitation of ecology and environment. This qualitative study addr…
A Concise History of the Middle East
A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this turbulent region. Spanning from pre-Islam to the present day, it explores the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West, modernization efforts in the Middle East, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the Arab-Israel conflict, the reassertion of Islamic values and power, the issues surrounding the …
Iraqis’ Bleak Views of the United States
Iraq's Gulf Policy and Regime Security from the Monarchy to the post-Ba'athist Era
Domestic regime security has explained Iraq's foreign policy to the Gulf since the birth of the nascent Hashemite kingdom in Baghdad. Saudi Arabia presented one of the first security threats to the Iraqi monarchy, and both King Ghazi and ‘Abd al-Karim Qasim sought to invade Kuwait in order to bolster their nationalist credentials at home. Baghdad's policy to Gulf prior to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War reflected a perceived threat from the Isl…
Reconciliation Dilemmas in Post-Ba'athist Iraq
Based on field work conducted in post-Ba'ath Iraq, as well as a study of official statements, print and broadcast media and insurgent communiqués and interviews with proponents of truth and reconciliation in post-war Iraq, this article examines attempts to create a truth and reconciliation committee to settle differences and tensions between former members of the party and communities affected by its collective policies. It shows that in 2003 the…
The “Dodgy Dossier
In September 2002, an article I had authored, “Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis,” was published in the September 2002 issue of the journal, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) . On February 6, 2003 a UK news report revealed that entire sections of a British government dossier entitled “Iraq-Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation” were copied from three published sources, with th…
The Family, Clan, and Tribal Dynamics of Saddam's Security and Intelligence Network
Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration
This article argues that ethno-sectarian exclusion undermined the post-invasion attempts at security sector reform (SSR) in Iraq by the US and successive local governments. While corruption, poor management, improper training, and lack of equipment contributed to the collapse of the Iraqi military in the face of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria invasion in 2014, this article primarily examines how the exclusion of Arab and Turkmen Sunnis from …
Reconciliation Dilemmas in Post-Ba'athist Iraq
Based on field work conducted in post-Ba'ath Iraq, as well as a study of official statements, print and broadcast media and insurgent communiqués and interviews with proponents of truth and reconciliation in post-war Iraq, this article examines attempts to create a truth and reconciliation committee to settle differences and tensions between former members of the party and communities affected by its collective policies. It shows that in 2003 the…
Iraq’s popular mobilisation units
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races
This forum highlights the disruptive implications of AI for the geopolitical landscape by examining its integration into command-and-control systems, military doctrines, and global security discourses. These transformations are embedded in core debates on spatial power projection, supply chain control, technological sovereignty, shifting international alliances, and the changing geography of innovation hubs. AI-assisted arms races are thus unders…
Depleted uranium munitions and the Ukraine war
Contrary to the contested use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons following the Iraq war in 2003, which led some nations to seek a ban on DU use and even eliminate their existing arsenals, there is now a growing tendency both toward the use and production of DU weapons, rendering such weapons as “normal” and “acceptable.” There is a risk of a DU renaissance as a consequence of the war in Ukraine. We argue that more attention is needed to the strateg…
Iraq's Gulf Policy and Regime Security from the Monarchy to the post-Ba'athist Era
Domestic regime security has explained Iraq's foreign policy to the Gulf since the birth of the nascent Hashemite kingdom in Baghdad. Saudi Arabia presented one of the first security threats to the Iraqi monarchy, and both King Ghazi and ‘Abd al-Karim Qasim sought to invade Kuwait in order to bolster their nationalist credentials at home. Baghdad's policy to Gulf prior to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War reflected a perceived threat from the Isl…
The Family, Clan, and Tribal Dynamics of Saddam's Security and Intelligence Network
The “Dodgy Dossier
In September 2002, an article I had authored, “Iraq's Security and Intelligence Network: A Guide and Analysis,” was published in the September 2002 issue of the journal, Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) . On February 6, 2003 a UK news report revealed that entire sections of a British government dossier entitled “Iraq-Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation” were copied from three published sources, with th…
Reconciliation Dilemmas in Post-Ba'athist Iraq
Based on field work conducted in post-Ba'ath Iraq, as well as a study of official statements, print and broadcast media and insurgent communiqués and interviews with proponents of truth and reconciliation in post-war Iraq, this article examines attempts to create a truth and reconciliation committee to settle differences and tensions between former members of the party and communities affected by its collective policies. It shows that in 2003 the…
Iraqis’ Bleak Views of the United States
Iraq's Gulf Policy and Regime Security from the Monarchy to the post-Ba'athist Era
Domestic regime security has explained Iraq's foreign policy to the Gulf since the birth of the nascent Hashemite kingdom in Baghdad. Saudi Arabia presented one of the first security threats to the Iraqi monarchy, and both King Ghazi and ‘Abd al-Karim Qasim sought to invade Kuwait in order to bolster their nationalist credentials at home. Baghdad's policy to Gulf prior to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War reflected a perceived threat from the Isl…
A Concise History of the Middle East
A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this turbulent region. Spanning from pre-Islam to the present day, it explores the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West, modernization efforts in the Middle East, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the Arab-Israel conflict, the reassertion of Islamic values and power, the issues surrounding the …
Can Nato evolve into a climate alliance treaty organization in the Middle East
NATO’s current security doctrine needs to change. It needs to enhance its political will and institutional capacity to manage climate change threats, both within the alliance itself and within the area most vulnerable to its southern flank: the Middle East. NATO will need to evolve into a CATO, a “Climate Alliance Treaty Organization,” that deals with the security implications of potential tipping points and develops policies in response. A case …
Nato and Collective Environmental Security in the Mena
The Covid-19 pandemic emerged as a global security risk, and national security institutions scrambled to manage a threat, not emanating from states or non-state actors, but from the environment. The pandemic serves as an empirical case to explore “anthropogenic strategic security,” or how security doctrines can anticipate and mitigate natural disasters, resulting from humanity’s exploitation of ecology and environment. This qualitative study addr…
Demobilization Minus Disarmament and Reintegration
This article argues that ethno-sectarian exclusion undermined the post-invasion attempts at security sector reform (SSR) in Iraq by the US and successive local governments. While corruption, poor management, improper training, and lack of equipment contributed to the collapse of the Iraqi military in the face of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria invasion in 2014, this article primarily examines how the exclusion of Arab and Turkmen Sunnis from …
Iraq’s popular mobilisation units
Depleted uranium munitions and the Ukraine war
Contrary to the contested use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons following the Iraq war in 2003, which led some nations to seek a ban on DU use and even eliminate their existing arsenals, there is now a growing tendency both toward the use and production of DU weapons, rendering such weapons as “normal” and “acceptable.” There is a risk of a DU renaissance as a consequence of the war in Ukraine. We argue that more attention is needed to the strateg…
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races
This forum highlights the disruptive implications of AI for the geopolitical landscape by examining its integration into command-and-control systems, military doctrines, and global security discourses. These transformations are embedded in core debates on spatial power projection, supply chain control, technological sovereignty, shifting international alliances, and the changing geography of innovation hubs. AI-assisted arms races are thus unders…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Middle East (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Geography (3 works)