The Center for Strategic and International Studies is a scientific center affiliated with the University of Baghdad that specializes in strategic and international studies related to the various countries of the world, their systems, issues, policies, and strategic and international relations. It seeks to provide information related to this, organize it, and facilitate its handling, with the aim of developing scientific research and upgrading it so that it becomes one of the tributaries of providing sufficient and accurate information. Researchers, policy makers and decision-makers in our country and other countries contribute to serving scientific research on the one hand and the public interest on the other.
Establishment
The Center was established in September 1980 under the name “Institute of Asian and African Studies.” The purpose of its establishment was to gain a comprehensive understanding of the countries of Asia and Africa through the study of the political, economic, social, historical and geographical affairs of the two continents.
The center expanded its missions and became known as the “Center for Third World Studies” on March 19, 1987. It focused on studying political affairs and international relations for the three continents: Asia – Africa – Latin America. Since that date, it was linked to the College of Political Science – University of Baghdad. Then the center’s scope of interest expanded further. In 1990, it was named the “Center for International Studies” to be concerned with political affairs and international relations for all continents of the world, and its association with the College of Political Science – University of Baghdad continued until April 1996, to be directly linked to the presidency of the University of Baghdad.
The center became known as the Center for Strategic and International Studies on June 12, 2013, in accordance with the order issued by the University of Baghdad, according to which it was decided to merge the two centers (the Center for International Studies and the Center for Palestinian Studies) into one center.
The Center for Palestinian Studies, which was merged with the Center for International Studies, was established in 1967 and reports directly to the presidency of the University of Baghdad. He was concerned with studying the Palestinian issue and its affairs, keeping up with it, introducing its various aspects, and studying the circles of the Arab-Israeli conflict, its contents, and its regional and international levels. The center was then linked to the College of Political Science at the University of Baghdad in 1986. In March 2002, it became an independent center affiliated with the presidency of the University of Baghdad.
center’s vision
The efforts of the center’s workers are united towards strategic scientific research that enhances Iraq’s status and interests internally, regionally and internationally, through the keenness of the center’s professors to work hard and diligently in order to accomplish the plans drawn up in order to upgrade the work of the scientific institution to line up alongside the solid regional and international academic scientific institutions and strive forward to crystallize These aspirations are transformed into reality through the development of a practical, thoughtful vision of the action plan in order to place the outcomes of research work in the service of society and decision-makers in Iraq in order for it to be an important tributary of the tributaries of building a new Iraq, in accordance with the center’s vision and goals.