Jennifer Murtazashvili on The Future of Afghanistan

Published: Aug. 4, 2022, noon

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In this episode, Shruti speaks with Jennifer Murtazashvili\\xa0about the problems with imposing liberal democracy in Afghanistan, building state capacity, education, the role of the U.S. in the Ghani government\\u2019s 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 \\u201cInformal Order and the State in Afghanistan\\u201d and the co-author (with Ilia Murtazashvili) of \\u201cLand, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan.\\u201d

Recorded July 20th, 2022

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