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