Achilles’ Heel of Hashd al-Shabi : Ambitions and Weaknesses of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://revista.unap.ro/index.php/bulletin/article/view/2233/2176" target="_blank" >https://revista.unap.ro/index.php/bulletin/article/view/2233/2176</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.53477/2284-9378-25-44" target="_blank" >10.53477/2284-9378-25-44</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Achilles’ Heel of Hashd al-Shabi : Ambitions and Weaknesses of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq

Original language description

This article examines the Iraqi pro-Iran Shia militia group Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), focusing on its growing assertiveness vis-à-vis its partner militias from the Hashd al-Shabi umbrella group. Through the lens of the ‘Networks of Rebellion’ theory by Paul Staniland, modified to the Iraqi Shia militias’ context by Renad Mansour, the article shows specificities of AAH’s ideological leaning vis-à-vis its partner militias. Among these are the combination of firm pro-Iran stance, typical for Hashd militias, combined with Iraqi nationalist roots, beginning with the seminars that AAH’s leader Qais al-Khazali attended under the patronage of the founder of the modern Sadrist movement. Influenced by its roots and current lack of lucrative high-ranking positions within Hashd, AAH keeps conflicting with other pro-Iran militias, the whole organization failing to display the coherence of its maternal Iranian Revolutionary Guards, regardless of their mutual resemblance. The article concludes with implications these intra-Hashd quarrels present for Western policy makers, especially given the currently weakened Iranian position in the region compared to its increasingly tighter grip on Iraq.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defence University

ISSN

2284-936X

e-ISSN

2284-9378

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

208-220

UT code for WoS article

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