Negotiating Ideas

Negotiating Ideas

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Negotiating Ideas episodes

  • 15. Human Rights, Relativism and the Taliban with Michael Goodhart

    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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    40 min
  • 14. State Fragility with Nemat Bezhan (Book Discussion)

    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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    41 min
  • 13. Democratic Resilience in eastern Europe with Jan Rovny

    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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    35 min
  • 12. Democratic backsliding and populism in Turkey with Bengi Gumrukcu

    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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    44 min
  • 11. Transitional Justice, Human Rights and Land Grabbing with Huma Saeed (Book Discussion)

    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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    52 min
  • 9. Zan, Zendagi, Azadi: Protests in Iran with Mohamad Machine-Chain

    Omar talks to Mohamad Machine-Chain on protests in Iran.

    Mohamad Machine-Chian is a research scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets, University of Pittsburgh. He has authored several books on privatization, constitutionalism, immigration, and economic reform. He is the founder and editor of bourgeois.ir.

    Suggested readings: 

    Max, Fisher. Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates. New York Times. 2022

    Parnshu Verma. Reporting in Iran could get you jailed. This outlet is doing it anyway. The Washington Post. 2022

    Robin, Wright. Iran's Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women. The Economist. 2022

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    36 min
  • 8. Twenty Years of Democracy in Afghanistan with Scott Worden

    Omar discusses the Post 2011 democracy of Afghanistan with Scott Worden.

    Scott Worden is director of Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). At his previous time with USIP, Worden directed Rule of Law development programs for the USIP and served as a United Nations-appointed Electoral Complaints Commissioner for the 2009 Afghanistan elections, as well as advising the U.N. on elections in 2005-06.

    Suggested readings: 

    • Scott Worden. Afghanistan An Election Gone Awry. Journal of Democracy. 2010.
    • Scott Worden. Political Stability in Afghanistan: A 2020 Vision and Roadmap. USIP. 2017.

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      38 min
    • 6. Rights, Legal Scholarship and the Study of the Taliban with Haroun Rahimi

      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:

      1. MacIntyre, Alasdair. 1984. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press.
      2. Faiz Ahmed, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
      3. Jennifer Murtazashvili. 2016. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan. Published online by Cambridge University Press. 
      4. Haroun Rahimi. 2021. A Constitutional Reckoning with The Taliban’s Brand of Islamist Politics: The Hard Path Ahead, Kabul: AISS.
      5. Haroun Rahimi. 2021. Afghanistan’s laws and legal institutions under the Taliban” Melbourn Asia Review.


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        56 min

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      Negotiating Ideas is a Podcast about liberty, democracy, and pluralism in Afghanistan and around the world. I am Omar Sadr, a scholar in exile, forced to flee my homeland overnight due to the…