Podcast appearances and mentions of jennifer murtazashvili

This week we welcome Jennifer Murtazashvili, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets.We talk about an interfaith initiative she co-founded with a Muslim colleague after October 7th, what it was like living as a Jewish woman in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and the differences she notices between American and foreign college students.Learn more about JenFollow her on Twitter/XTwo Friends—One Jewish, One Muslim—Have an Answer to Campus Conflict - Tablet Magazine, January 2024Questions? Email askajewpod@gmail.com, and join the conversation on Substack: askajew.substack.com Joing the AAJ conversation on Susbtack! askajew.substack.comEmail us your questions askajewpod@gmail.com ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Want to help us grow? Rate and review us 5 stars on Apple podcasts and Spotify ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Dr. Murtazashvili is the founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the school of public and international affairs. As the author of notable books about the political order of Afghanistan and economic development more generally, Jennifer studies communities, power, conflict and how they all intertwine. On this episode of the Templeton Ideas podcast, Jen joins Ben Carlson, director of strategic communication at the John Templeton Foundation, to discuss common misconceptions about Central Asia, the strength of bottom-up approaches to building democracies, and practical advice to employ in your own communities. What did you think of this episode? Let us know with a rating and a review! Still curious? https://www.templeton.org/news is where you can find the latest stories from our grantees, our staff, and contributing writers from around the world.  Join the conversation on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Omar Sadr talks to Haroun Rahimi about the notion of rights, how the contestation between the liberal and Islamic notions of right took place, how the law scholars studied the totalitarian Taliban, and finally why legal scholarship in Afghanistan has been avoiding a critical approach about the Taliban. Dr. Haroun Rahimi is an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Afghanistan. In his research, Dr. Rahimi studies law and development, and institutional reform. He is also an associate editor for the Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice. Suggested readings: MacIntyre, Alasdair. 1984. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press. Faiz Ahmed, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Jennifer Murtazashvili. 2016. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan. Published online by Cambridge University Press. Haroun Rahimi. 2021. A Constitutional Reckoning with The Taliban's Brand of Islamist Politics: The Hard Path Ahead, Kabul: AISS. Haroun Rahimi. 2021. Afghanistan's laws and legal institutions under the Taliban” Melbourn Asia Review. Connect with us! Google, Apple, Spotify, Anchor Twitter: @negotiateideas & @OmarSadr Email: negotiatingidea@gmail.com

In this episode, Shruti speaks with Jennifer Murtazashvili about the problems with imposing liberal democracy in Afghanistan, building state capacity, education, the role of the U.S. in the Ghani government's collapse and much more. Murtazashvili is the founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets and an associate professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on issues of self-governance, security, political economy and public-sector reform in the developing world. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is the author of “Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan” and the co-author (with Ilia Murtazashvili) of “Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan.” Recorded July 20th, 2022 Read a full transcript of this episode enhanced with helpful links. Follow us on Twitter Follow Shruti on Twitter Follow Jen on Twitter Click here for the latest Ideas of India episodes sent straight to your inbox.

Speaking with Dr Jennifer Murtazashvili of the University of Pittsburgh about pluralism and liberalism in Afghanistan.

In recent months, China and Russia have upgraded their strategic partnership, conducted joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan, and deepened collaboration on nuclear and space technology. Beijing and Moscow have also taken steps to test the credibility of U.S. alliances in the Indo-Pacific and trans-Atlantic regions. But as China-Russia ties have grown increasingly robust, Washington has become more and more concerned, labeling an “increasingly assertive China” and a “destabilizing Russia” as its chief foreign policy challenges and engaging both countries in dialogue and diplomacy. However, this narrative of China-Russia partnership has its limits—widening trade and economic disparities and intensifying competition for influence in Central Asia produce substantial points of tension between the two nations. How will China and Russia navigate the complex, often conflicting, dynamics in their relationship? And how might their interactions impact the United States' regional and global strategy? During a live recording of the China in the World podcast, Paul Haenle spoke with Guan Guihai, Associate Professor and Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at Peking University, Jennifer B. Murtazashvili, the Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Associate Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Alexander Gabuev, Senior Fellow and the Chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. This panel is the second of the Carnegie Global Dialogue Series 2021-2022 and is also available to be watched online. 

Our guest is professor Jennifer Murtazashvili, we talked extensively about everything: the political economy in Central Asia, governance, the war in Afghanistan, good institutions, property rights protection, US - Uzbekistan relations, RCTs, customs and wedding tradition, authoritarian tendencies of humankind and so much more.

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? Selected Work: Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan (with Ilia Murtazashvili). Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice and Society series. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. “Coercive Capacity, Land Reform and Political Order in Afghanistan," with Ilia Murtazashvili. Central Asian Survey 36, no. 2 (2017): 212–30.

On this week's episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington, interviews Prof. Jennifer Murtazashvili from the University of Pittsburgh. This episode features her latest book Land, the State and War, published by Cambridge University Press. The book employs a historical narrative, extensive fieldwork and a national survey to explore how private property institutions develop, how they are maintained, and their relationship to the state and state-building within the context of Afghanistan. This episode also discusses the long running governance challenges in Afghanistan, and the recent problems associated with the actions of foreign powers.

Jennifer Murtazashvili is an associate professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh and directs the Center for Governance and Markets. Jennifer is also an expert on all things Afghanistan, given her experience working there and advising governments and international organizations on issues related to Afghanistan. She also has a new book titled, *Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan*, and joins the show to talk about it. Jennifer and David also discuss the recent developments as well as long-term developments in the country and lessons for state capacity building.   Transcript for the episode can be found here: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/tags/macro-musings   Jennifer's Twitter: @jmurtazashvili Jennifer's University of Pittsburgh profile: https://gspia.pitt.edu/faculty-and-staff/jennifer-brick-murtazashvili   Related Links:   *Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan* by Jennifer Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/land-the-state-and-war/A7B8C98CB24780A3CC0EA1CD265D888A   *Informal Federalism: Self-Governance and Power Sharing in Afghanistan* by Jennifer Murtazashvili https://academic.oup.com/publius/article-abstract/44/2/324/1873292   *The Politics of Land Property Rights* by Meina Cai, Ilia Murtazashvili and Jennifer Murtazashvili https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3393160   *Bring the Afghans to America* by Benjamin Powell and Alex Nowrasteh https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/568964-bring-the-afghans-to-america?rl=1   *Inside Afghanistan's Cryptocurrency Underground as the Country Plunges into Turmoil* by MacKenzie Sigalos https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/21/bitcoin-afghanistan-cryptocurrency-taliban-capital-flight.html   David's blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

"Lynn is talking with Jennifer Murtazashvili, University Of Pittsburgh Director of the Center for Governance and Markets, about helping Afghan refugees to get out of the country."

Episode 9: In this month's episode Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh) and GLD Director, Ellen Lust, discusses national level reforms and decentralization in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Jennifer Murtazashvili is the Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research explores questions of governance, political economy, security, and development. Drawing from diverse research methods including field experiments, public opinion surveys, and ethnographic fieldwork, Murtazashvili focuses her work on Central and South Asia, and the former Soviet Union. She also has experience advising for the U.S. Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Program, and UNICEF. Selected Work: Jochem, T., Murtazashvili, I., & Murtazashvili, J. (2016). Establishing local government in fragile states: Experimental evidence from Afghanistan. World Development, 77, 293-310. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X15002065

Tooday's guest is Jennifer Murtazashvili of the University of Pittsburgh. We discuss her book, Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan. Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and deliberative. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and observations from dozens of villages across Afghanistan, and statistical analysis of nationally representative surveys, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili demonstrates that such authority enhances citizen support for democracy, enabling the rule of law by providing citizens with a bulwark of defence against predatory state officials. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it shows that 'traditional' order does not impede the development of the state because even the most independent-minded communities see a need for a central government - but question its effectiveness when it attempts to rule them directly and without substantive consultation. Our conversation dives deep into the modern history of Afghanistan, including its 1978 communist revolution and subsequent Soviet invasion.

On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Paul Aligica is joined by Jennifer Murtazashvili, Jerry Gaus, and James Johnson as they discuss his book "Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance." Aligica examines what he sees as one of the fundamental challenges still faced by the public choice angle, that being the challenge of irrelevance. In particular, he focuses on the need to develop a constructive side of public choice, not just a criticizing one. CC Music: Twisterium

Best of 2018 Part 1 Excerpts from the following episodes feature in this 'Best of 2018 Part1'. 170 Jim Rogers on opportunities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and North Korea 139 Loretta Napoleoni North Korea growth prospects and how they can position themselves in the world economy 155 Lotta Moberg Refugee Cities and SEZs 167 James Kenneth Galbraith on the prospects for the Greek economy 150 Chris Blattman the economic and psychological effects of violence and war esp among children and in communities 169 Jennifer Murtazashvili democrarcy and governance in Afghanistan and the leadership role of women in communities in Uzbekistan 145 Marie Mora Under-represented minority women in economics and the plight of Puerto Ricans in the US 161 Tyler Cowen on art, culture, liberty and prospects of economic growth and welfare in the US, China and India 160 Arjo Klamer  Culture (Japan) and Writing as a means to create personal value 153 Sarah and Steve Writing

Jennifer Murtazashvili is professor and director of the International Development Program at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research explores questions of governance, public administration, and local institutions with a geographical focus on Central and South Asia and the former Soviet Union. Jennifer’s first book, Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Check out the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode over at www.economicrockstar.com/jennifer Support the show for as little as $1 per month over at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

On this episode of the podcast, Christopher Coyne, Associate Director of the Hayek Program, interviews Jennifer B. Murtazashvili on her work with local governments and informal institutions in Central Eurasia. As part of the conversation, Dr. Murtazashvili shares her personal experience and research from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan on the state-building process, the role of customs in influencing informal institutions, and the effect of foreign aid on economic and institutional development. CC Music: Twisterium