Political development is one of the concepts that has taken a wide range of attention from specialists because of the major roles it plays in the transition from a state of underdevelopment and stagnation to a state of launching and moving towards overcoming the crises of the relationship between the rulers and the ruled. And if attention is focused on the crises of political development, then the ways to overcome them are considered a major problem that many countries have suffered and suffer from, due to the persistence and frequency of these crises in the societies of the developing world. And its importance theoretically and practically, we will address in this research the external determinants of political development in Iraq by addressing the determinants at the regional level and then the international level, and because of their effects on the internal political situation in Iraq and its development policy.