Amid a new and violent insurgency in Iraq, our working paper spells out the options for the country and the international community. Based on research in 104 districts in Iraq from 2004-2009, the paper focuses on three counter-insurgency strategies: 1. Increasing troop numbers; 2. Investing in local development programmes; and 3. Cooperating with ethnic / tribal councils. Author Pui-hang Wong, a PhD Fellow at UNU-MERIT, finds that insurgents are highly responsive to counter-insurgency interventi...