The Economic, Administrative and Political Fundamentals of State-building: Iraq as a Case Study for the period (2013-2017)

Despite the great importance of the economic, administrative and political fundamentals of state-building, many countries, including Iraq, suffer from the weakness of the mentioned fundamentals. Hence, the research adopted the scientific methodology to analyze the subject by setting the conceptual and applied frameworks based on several hypothesis, including that the economic and administrative fundamentals have a significant role, even it determines the level of state –building and the levels of these fundamentals mentioned in Iraq are very weak, which made the level of state-building in Iraq very weak. This research reached several conclusions confirming the validity of the hypothesis among them is that there is a significant relationship between the above-mentioned fundamentals and state-building through international indicators for this field. The level of good governance in Iraq reached (8.9%) in 2017 and it is among the unstable countries and rank (3) globally in terms of instability and lack of peace as well as among the failed countries ranking (11) globally.