Jen Brick Murtazashvili
@jmurtazashvili.bsky.social
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NEXT MONDAY: Deji Olaore, Former Senior Advisor, Anti-Corruption/Public Accountability (USAID)
“Adapting to the Changing Landscape of DA,”
📅 November 10
⏰ 4:00 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://forms.monday.com/forms/9b02a5e0ace5b8b58c07470c492665cc?r=use1 …
“Adapting to the Changing Landscape of DA,”
📅 November 10
⏰ 4:00 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://forms.monday.com/forms/9b02a5e0ace5b8b58c07470c492665cc?r=use1 …
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
NEXT MONDAY: Deji Olaore, Former Senior Advisor, Anti-Corruption/Public Accountability (USAID)
“Adapting to the Changing Landscape of DA,”
📅 November 10
⏰ 4:00 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://forms.monday.com/forms/9b02a5e0ace5b8b58c07470c492665cc?r=use1 …
“Adapting to the Changing Landscape of DA,”
📅 November 10
⏰ 4:00 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://forms.monday.com/forms/9b02a5e0ace5b8b58c07470c492665cc?r=use1 …
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EVENT RECAP: Development in Crisis: Can Blockchain Save What's Left of the Aid System? with Paul Wong, Stellar Development Fund
Part of the @CGMPitt series on the future of development assistance.
Watch full video, here: https://youtu.be/Qg2ETGTyrfI
Part of the @CGMPitt series on the future of development assistance.
Watch full video, here: https://youtu.be/Qg2ETGTyrfI
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
EVENT RECAP: Development in Crisis: Can Blockchain Save What's Left of the Aid System? with Paul Wong, Stellar Development Fund
Part of the @CGMPitt series on the future of development assistance.
Watch full video, here: https://youtu.be/Qg2ETGTyrfI
Part of the @CGMPitt series on the future of development assistance.
Watch full video, here: https://youtu.be/Qg2ETGTyrfI
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MONDAY: Nadav Eyal, Colombia University
“Future of the Middle East”
📅 October 20
⏰ 4:30 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://wkf.ms/470QVjb
“Future of the Middle East”
📅 October 20
⏰ 4:30 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://wkf.ms/470QVjb
October 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
MONDAY: Nadav Eyal, Colombia University
“Future of the Middle East”
📅 October 20
⏰ 4:30 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://wkf.ms/470QVjb
“Future of the Middle East”
📅 October 20
⏰ 4:30 PM ET
📌 Alcoa Room (Law 229)
Register here: https://wkf.ms/470QVjb
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FRIDAY: Tristan Thoma, Executive Director, Impera Strategy & Maxwell DeGregorio, Senior Associate, Milken Institute of Finance
“National Digital Currency Strategy”
📅 September 26
⏰ 11:30 AM ET
📌 Zoom
Register here:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/sEsvdsr0QaOjF_oATn_Wpg#/registration
“National Digital Currency Strategy”
📅 September 26
⏰ 11:30 AM ET
📌 Zoom
Register here:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/sEsvdsr0QaOjF_oATn_Wpg#/registration
September 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
FRIDAY: Tristan Thoma, Executive Director, Impera Strategy & Maxwell DeGregorio, Senior Associate, Milken Institute of Finance
“National Digital Currency Strategy”
📅 September 26
⏰ 11:30 AM ET
📌 Zoom
Register here:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/sEsvdsr0QaOjF_oATn_Wpg#/registration
“National Digital Currency Strategy”
📅 September 26
⏰ 11:30 AM ET
📌 Zoom
Register here:
https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/sEsvdsr0QaOjF_oATn_Wpg#/registration
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DUE NEXT MON: CGM invites paper submissions for a two-day workshop on reimagining international development assistance through bottom-up approaches.
📅 Submit by September 29: [email protected]
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/rethinking-aid-ground-bottom-approaches-development-assistance
📅 Submit by September 29: [email protected]
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/rethinking-aid-ground-bottom-approaches-development-assistance
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
DUE NEXT MON: CGM invites paper submissions for a two-day workshop on reimagining international development assistance through bottom-up approaches.
📅 Submit by September 29: [email protected]
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/rethinking-aid-ground-bottom-approaches-development-assistance
📅 Submit by September 29: [email protected]
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/rethinking-aid-ground-bottom-approaches-development-assistance
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DUE NEXT MON: Customary Authority & Informal Institutions
📅 Submit by September 29: https://forms.monday.com/forms/fd759a385df71b89b871423d77dbfcba?r=use1
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/customary-authority-and-informal-institutions-qualitative-methods-symposium-and-grant-submission
📅 Submit by September 29: https://forms.monday.com/forms/fd759a385df71b89b871423d77dbfcba?r=use1
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/customary-authority-and-informal-institutions-qualitative-methods-symposium-and-grant-submission
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
DUE NEXT MON: Customary Authority & Informal Institutions
📅 Submit by September 29: https://forms.monday.com/forms/fd759a385df71b89b871423d77dbfcba?r=use1
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/customary-authority-and-informal-institutions-qualitative-methods-symposium-and-grant-submission
📅 Submit by September 29: https://forms.monday.com/forms/fd759a385df71b89b871423d77dbfcba?r=use1
📌 More Information: https://www.cgm.pitt.edu/customary-authority-and-informal-institutions-qualitative-methods-symposium-and-grant-submission
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"The United States must move beyond the broken models of the past and embrace an approach centered on human agency, economic opportunity, and local ownership," writes TPN member Faisal Saeed al Mutar with @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social.
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...
Reimagining US Foreign Aid as a Tool for Change
A smarter, more targeted approach to foreign aid can foster real development without wasting taxpayer money.
nationalinterest.org
August 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"The United States must move beyond the broken models of the past and embrace an approach centered on human agency, economic opportunity, and local ownership," writes TPN member Faisal Saeed al Mutar with @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social.
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...
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What explains the dramatic swings in US foreign policy we're seeing? Besides a democratic peace, I argue in a new co-authored @apsa-preprints.bsky.social that there is also a Right-Wing Peace and a Left-Wing Peace. Come for the experiments and stay for the MIDs analysis go.shr.lc/4jucw6O
The Left-Wing Peace & The Right-Wing Peace
How strong is the nexus between domestic and international politics? The democratic peace contends that democracies do not fight interstate wars against each other. We argue there is also a “left-wing...
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June 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What explains the dramatic swings in US foreign policy we're seeing? Besides a democratic peace, I argue in a new co-authored @apsa-preprints.bsky.social that there is also a Right-Wing Peace and a Left-Wing Peace. Come for the experiments and stay for the MIDs analysis go.shr.lc/4jucw6O
I'm excited to announce the release of our new, open access book, Governing Differences, co-edited with Paul Dragos Aligica.
New #OpenAccess title: Governing Differences, Social Diversity, Polycentric Political Economy and Modus Vivendi, edited by Paul Dragos Aligica and @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social
Read the entire book for 🆓 at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
#PoliticalScience #PublicPolicy #PoliticalPhilosophy
Read the entire book for 🆓 at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
#PoliticalScience #PublicPolicy #PoliticalPhilosophy
May 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm excited to announce the release of our new, open access book, Governing Differences, co-edited with Paul Dragos Aligica.
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Re-sharing an interview I did with Platon ahead of Memorial Day nearly a decade ago. Much still to think about in the points he made
www.npr.org/2016/04/24/4...
www.npr.org/2016/04/24/4...
In 'Service,' A Celebrated Photographer Turns His Lens On U.S. Troops
Platon, best known for his portraits of leaders and celebrities, focuses on U.S. troops and their loved ones in his new book, Service. "It's time to celebrate a new set of cultural heroes," he says.
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Re-sharing an interview I did with Platon ahead of Memorial Day nearly a decade ago. Much still to think about in the points he made
www.npr.org/2016/04/24/4...
www.npr.org/2016/04/24/4...
Last week in NYC we hosted a workshop on reinventing US foreign aid. We gathered practitioners, analysts, entrepreneurs, & journalists to ask: If the old aid architecture is crumbling, what should replace it?
See this write-up in The National Interest
nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-h...
See this write-up in The National Interest
nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-h...
What is Donald Trump’s Foreign Aid Plan?
Trump’s OMB Director Russell Vought needs more of an global health, aid, and disaster relief agenda than just spending cuts.
nationalinterest.org
May 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Last week in NYC we hosted a workshop on reinventing US foreign aid. We gathered practitioners, analysts, entrepreneurs, & journalists to ask: If the old aid architecture is crumbling, what should replace it?
See this write-up in The National Interest
nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-h...
See this write-up in The National Interest
nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-h...
Nothing has hurt academia more than the idea that universities exist to wage political crusades.
As a public policy prof, I teach that policies always involve trade-offs.
Treating it as moral certainty kills the humility and curiosity students need—and drains public trust.
As a public policy prof, I teach that policies always involve trade-offs.
Treating it as moral certainty kills the humility and curiosity students need—and drains public trust.
May 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Nothing has hurt academia more than the idea that universities exist to wage political crusades.
As a public policy prof, I teach that policies always involve trade-offs.
Treating it as moral certainty kills the humility and curiosity students need—and drains public trust.
As a public policy prof, I teach that policies always involve trade-offs.
Treating it as moral certainty kills the humility and curiosity students need—and drains public trust.
Reposted by Jen Brick Murtazashvili
A FoxNews Opinion tells us that Trump's tariffs were aimed to spook the market & push down interest rates on US bonds, to reduce the cost of rolling over US debt.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/here...
Does POTUS really think that he needs a recession for US treasuries to compete with private investments?
www.foxnews.com/opinion/here...
Does POTUS really think that he needs a recession for US treasuries to compete with private investments?
Here's what Trump is really up to with high-stakes tariff gambit
Policy analyst Tanvi Ratna breaks down what President Trump is really up to with his tariffs, and it is more ambitious that you may think.
www.foxnews.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A FoxNews Opinion tells us that Trump's tariffs were aimed to spook the market & push down interest rates on US bonds, to reduce the cost of rolling over US debt.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/here...
Does POTUS really think that he needs a recession for US treasuries to compete with private investments?
www.foxnews.com/opinion/here...
Does POTUS really think that he needs a recession for US treasuries to compete with private investments?
It's encouraging to see academics embracing academic freedom lately. Yet our credibility is damaged by years of intolerance toward viewpoint diversity within our own institutions. The public doesn't trust us anymore and our past resistance to pluralism is a major reason why.
April 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It's encouraging to see academics embracing academic freedom lately. Yet our credibility is damaged by years of intolerance toward viewpoint diversity within our own institutions. The public doesn't trust us anymore and our past resistance to pluralism is a major reason why.
Our expert class and our institutions need to earn back the trust they lost. And they need to do this by consistently showing themselves to be transparent, honest, and competent.
Universities must fervently protect a robust free speech culture.
eternallyradicalidea.com/p/the-misinf...
Universities must fervently protect a robust free speech culture.
eternallyradicalidea.com/p/the-misinf...
The misinformation crisis isn’t about truth, it’s about trust
Without free speech, academic freedom, and confidence in our experts and institutions, no amount of fact-checking will help.
eternallyradicalidea.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Our expert class and our institutions need to earn back the trust they lost. And they need to do this by consistently showing themselves to be transparent, honest, and competent.
Universities must fervently protect a robust free speech culture.
eternallyradicalidea.com/p/the-misinf...
Universities must fervently protect a robust free speech culture.
eternallyradicalidea.com/p/the-misinf...
“Remember how many signs there were in Pittsburgh saying, ‘No Place for Hate?’ We’ve learned very quickly that it is a place that’s very welcoming, unfortunately, for a lot of hatred.”
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/squirrel-hil...
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/squirrel-hil...
Squirrel Hill resident targeted with hate
"What they did was a cowardly act. It wasn’t an act of bravery.”
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“Remember how many signs there were in Pittsburgh saying, ‘No Place for Hate?’ We’ve learned very quickly that it is a place that’s very welcoming, unfortunately, for a lot of hatred.”
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/squirrel-hil...
jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/squirrel-hil...
Spoke with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette about the implications of the release of Pittsburgher Marc Fogel for US foreign policy and potential negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...
www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...
‘Proud Pittsburgher’ Marc Fogel’s release from Russia sets stage for reshaped Trump foreign policy
WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump suggested that Marc Fogel and the diplomats and lawmakers huddled around him outside the White...
www.post-gazette.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Spoke with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette about the implications of the release of Pittsburgher Marc Fogel for US foreign policy and potential negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...
www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...
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My paper on "Decentralized Stabilization Assistance" has been revised & accepted for publication by the journal PRISM at the Irregular Warfare Center.
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February 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My paper on "Decentralized Stabilization Assistance" has been revised & accepted for publication by the journal PRISM at the Irregular Warfare Center.
home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/re...
home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/re...
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New Review Article on Fast Track by Ilia Murtazashvili & Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, "Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics: Ingenta Connect Fast Track Article
www.ingentaconnect.com
January 30, 2024 at 2:07 PM
New Review Article on Fast Track by Ilia Murtazashvili & Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, "Informal Institutions in Comparative Politics,” www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...
My review of Mustafa Akyol's latest book, The Islamic Moses, for @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social.
This is such an important book for this moment. This book will make you less certain about what it is you think you understand.
thedispatch.com/article/book...
This is such an important book for this moment. This book will make you less certain about what it is you think you understand.
thedispatch.com/article/book...
One New Book About Two Ancient Faiths
Reimagining the connections between Islam and Judaism.
thedispatch.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My review of Mustafa Akyol's latest book, The Islamic Moses, for @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social.
This is such an important book for this moment. This book will make you less certain about what it is you think you understand.
thedispatch.com/article/book...
This is such an important book for this moment. This book will make you less certain about what it is you think you understand.
thedispatch.com/article/book...
Pitt friends - join us for this special event on Monday
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, Executive Director, Arava Institute (Israel)
"Environmental Diplomacy During Crises: A View from Israel and Palestine"
📅 Monday, Dec 2
⏰ 10:30-11:30 am
🏨 William Pitt Union--Dining Room A
Register: buff.ly/4eShrw2
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, Executive Director, Arava Institute (Israel)
"Environmental Diplomacy During Crises: A View from Israel and Palestine"
📅 Monday, Dec 2
⏰ 10:30-11:30 am
🏨 William Pitt Union--Dining Room A
Register: buff.ly/4eShrw2
November 30, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Pitt friends - join us for this special event on Monday
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, Executive Director, Arava Institute (Israel)
"Environmental Diplomacy During Crises: A View from Israel and Palestine"
📅 Monday, Dec 2
⏰ 10:30-11:30 am
🏨 William Pitt Union--Dining Room A
Register: buff.ly/4eShrw2
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, Executive Director, Arava Institute (Israel)
"Environmental Diplomacy During Crises: A View from Israel and Palestine"
📅 Monday, Dec 2
⏰ 10:30-11:30 am
🏨 William Pitt Union--Dining Room A
Register: buff.ly/4eShrw2