New Non-State Players and Implications for Regional Security: The Case of the Shiite Religious Establishment of Iraq
Visser, ReidarSAIS Review vol. 29, no.2 (Summer-Fall 2009)
The Johns Hopkins University Press (2009)p. 11-20.
The main argument outlined in this article is that the Shiite religious establishment in Iraq remains reluctant in its interactions with state institutions, and continues to fear that its transnational character and unique legitimacy worldwide could become compromised by too close an association with the temporal governments of individual countries.
