Traditional Structures and Institutional Modernization Process in Iraq

The process of institutional modernization reflects a kind of continuous interaction with traditional structures to achieve justice and equality and giving the political system the ability to reach integration, stability, and reform of the political system to change the patterns of power based on traditional loyalties with a modern rational system coupled with a democratic national government by encouraging awareness of the integrative framework of the homeland by expanding the political and official participation granted by the Iraqi state to the traditional structures, and integrating and dismantling them. Therefore, every modernization process of state institutions is not without obstacles that pose challenges that must be developed and addressed through mechanisms to get institutional modernization. The study aims to identify the necessary ways to contain and dismantle traditional structures, reformulate and reconstruct them, and pay attention to supporting their national role in achieving stability. The importance of the research lies in that it attempts to shed light on a topic that has not taken enough study and investigation. Despite the importance of the traditional structures in Iraq and their great role in influencing the overall situation in the country, the research that were written about them are relatively few. Therefore, this research came to fill the deficiency. The research included three sections. The first one is the theoretical framework for the two concepts of traditional structures. The second section is to clarify the obstacles to integrating traditional structures into the process of institutional modernization. The third section dealt with the mechanisms necessary to integrate traditional structures into the process of institutional modernization