Mako Speaks at Symposium Exploring Legacies of the Iraq War
On February 28, 2023, Shamiran Mako, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, took part in an event hosted by the Yale University Jackson School on Global Affairs exploring what can be learned from the United States 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The symposium, titled “Lessons and Legacies of Iraq 20 Years On,” examined the impacts of the Global War on Terror, the United States’ invasion of Iraq, and the impact of their withdrawal in 2014 on current political, military, and policymaking conversations.
Mako took part in a panel titled “The Middle East in the Wake of Operation Iraqi Freedom.” She was joined by Rozina Ali of The New York Times; Matthew Duss for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and moderator Alexandre Debs of Yale University. In her remarks, Mako broke down the changes in Iraq 20 years since the country’s regime change, as well as the pre-war legacies of post-invasion governance outcomes.
Shamiran Mako is an assistant professor of international relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. She is also a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Political Science Department at Boston University. Her research explores the historical and contemporary drivers of inter and intra-state conflicts that produce weak and fragile states across the MENA region. She is the author of After the Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, with Valentine Moghadam. Read more about Professor Mako on her faculty profile.