Negotiating Ideas – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Samuel Moyn and Omar Sadr discuss failures of Cold War liberalism and the challenges of contemporary liberalism.

Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. Trained in modern European intellectual history, he works on political and legal thought in modern times and on constitutional and international law in historical and current perspective. 

Readings

Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press, 2023) The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard University Press, 2010)

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Omar Sadr discusses how refugee academics navigated the American academia with Halil Yenigun and Alfred Babo.

Alfred is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Fairfield University, Connecticut.

Halil is the Associate Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University.

Reading:

Alfred Babo. 38 Paradise Road, Being an African Francophone Refugee Scholar in American Academia, Journal of International Mobility 2021

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Omar Sadr talks to Timor Sharan on his book Inside Afghanistan: Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption. Dr Timor Sharan is a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. His expertise is on the relationship between counterinsurgency efforts, transnational financial flows, and violence as well as organised crime, corruption, and the political economy of international state building with a particular focus on Afghanistan. He is a fellow at the Centre on Armed Groups and a Research Associate Fellow with Overseas Development Institute. He was an Associate Fellow at the London School of Economics, IDEAS foreign policy think tank, in 2021-2022. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Suggested readings:⁠⁠⁠

Sharan, Timor. 2023. Inside Afghanistan: Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption. London: Routledge.

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Omar Sadr talks to Hassan Abbas on his book The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After Americans Left Hassan Abbas is Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the Near East South Asia Strategic Studies Centre (NESA), National Defense University in Washington DC. Suggested readings:⁠

The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After Americans Left The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism in Pakistan – Afghanistan Frontier published in 2015 by Yale University Press

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Omar Sadr talks to Charles Dunst on how to improve quality of democracies. Charles Dunst is deputy director of research & analytics at ⁠The Asia Group⁠⁠, ⁠an adjunct fellow at the ⁠Center for Strategic and International Studies⁠⁠,⁠ and a contributing editor of ⁠American Purpose⁠. Suggested readings: Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman (Hodder & Stoughton, February 2023).

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Omar Sadr talks to Michael Goodhart on human rights as a political contestation Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science and of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. His core research interests include democracy, human rights, (in)justice, and emancipatory political struggles.  Suggested readings:

Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World. Oxford University Press (2018).

“Constructing dignity: Human rights as a praxis of egalitarian freedom,” Journal of Human Rights (2018).

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Omar Sadr talks to Nemat Bezhan on state fragility and resilience

Nematullah Bizhan is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Development Policy Centre, Crawford school of Public Policy, Australian National University. He is also a Senior Research Associate with the Global Economic Governance Program, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. in association with the Oxford-LSE Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development, he worked on state fragility and international policy.  

Suggested readings:

Bizhan, N. (2023). State Fragility: Case Studies and Comparisons. ed. (New York: Routledge).

Bizhan, N. (2017) Aid Paradoxes in Afghanistan: Building and Undermining the State (New York: Routledge).

Bizhan, N. (2017). Revenue and State Building in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan: Challenges and Prospects, ed. Srinjoy Bose, Nishank Motwani and William Malay (London: Routledge).

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Omar Sadr talks to Jan Rovny on democratic resilience and pluralism in eastern Europe.

Jan Rovny an associate professor at Sciences Po, Paris. His research concentrates on political competition in Europe with the aim of uncovering the political conflict lines in different countries. He explores the issues that political parties contest across the continent, the strategies that different parties follow, as well as the preferences and voting patterns of voters.

Suggested Reading

Jan Rovny. Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience, American Political Science Review, 2023

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Omar Sadr talks to Bengi Gumrukcu on democratic backsliding, populism, Islamism in Turkey.

Bengi Gumrukcu is lecturer of political science at Rutgers University. She studies various aspects of social movements, political parties, far right, violence and Europeanization and Euroscepticism, mainly focusing on the case of Turkey.

Suggested readings:

Bengi Gumrukcu. "Populist discourse, (counter-) mobilizations and democratic backsliding in Turkey”, Turkish Studies, 2022

Bengi Gumrukcu. "Forming Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Competitive Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of the 2018 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern, 2022.

Sebnem Gumuscu. Democracy or Authoritarianism Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia. Cambridge University Press

Hanspeter Kriesi. "Revisiting the Populist Challenge", Politologicky Casopis/ Czech Journal of Political Science. 2018.

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Omar talks to Huma Saeed on Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Harm

Huma Saeed is an affiliated researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, Belgium.

Suggested readings:

Huma Saeed, Transitional Justice and Socio-Economic Harm: Land Grabbing in Afghanistan, Routledge: 2023

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