Kurdish Politics in Post-2003 Iraq KRI

In geographical terms, IraqIraq is a West Asian country with state boundaries that were created by the British governmentBritish government between 1914 and 1932 (Dodge, Inventing Iraq: The failure of nation building and a history denied. Columbia University Press, p. 1, 2003). Its capital is BaghdadBaghdad. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRIKurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)) lies in the northern part of the country. Iraq’s main ethnic groupsethnic groups are ArabsArabs and Kurds, along with sectarian groupssectarian groups of Shi’ites and Sunnis.