The Regional Challenges that Stand in the Way of Iraqi Foreign Policy to use Soft Power

Abstract

The Iraqi security environment suffers from a wide margin challenges, it is formed by a complex set of elements and components that have a great impact on the security scene, One of the most important factors are politics, geography, economy, external interference and other influential factors, which reflects on the overall situation of societal stability and directly affects the state of general stability politically, economically and socially inside Iraq, furthermore it will encourages enemies and opponents to enter through it to the Iraqi arena and influence the shaping of its security scene.The concept of national security or the concept of national security of any State is no longer limited to the local dimension and the internal arena, especially in the West Asian region, where the concept of domestic security overlaps with the concept of regional security and the concept of international security, because it is located on the main path of the strategies and interests of the major world powers that are engaged in a struggle for hegemony and influence and compete on their straits, corridors and seas.