Iraq Banks on Peer Review to Rebuild Its Research Base

摘要

In 2004, a year after the United States and its allies invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein, the Coalition Provisional Authority created the Iraqi Nonproliferation Programs Foundation. Although it was supposed to evolve into an agency to fund basic and applied research, its $47 million allocation never materialized after the new Iraqi government came to power.rnToday, only 14 months before the final pullout of all U.S. troops, Iraqi officials are still trying to build a research infrastructure. As part of that effort, a six-member Iraqi delegation visited the United States recently to study the U.S. system. They met with officials at the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and traveled around the country to meet with nongovernmental organi zations and universities.