Episode 32: Joining us in this episode to talk about local politics and the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili. Jen is the Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2020, Jen's book \"Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan,\" received the Best Book Award in Social Sciences by the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Her second book, \"Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan\" (with Ilia Murtazashvili), was published in September 2021 with Cambridge University Press. In addition, Jennifer has also advised the United States Agency for International Development, the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, the World Bank, the US Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Program, and UNICEF. Together with host Ellen Lust, Jen discusses how the Talibans have been received in Afghanistan after their takeover in August 2021. What has changed since the former Taliban rule? And how much do we really know?
Additional Work:
“Coercive Capacity, Land Reform and Political Order in Afghanistan,\" with Ilia Murtazashvili. Central Asian Survey 36, no. 2 (2017): 212–30.
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