SEPADPod with Shamiran Mako

Richardson Institute

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Shamiran Mako, assistant professor of international relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics of the Middle East with a substantive emphasis on foreign intervention, ethnic conflict, political violence in divided societies, and institutions and statebuilding. Shamiran is on twitter @shamiranmako She is the author of After the Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, with Valentine Moghadam. Shamiran is the editor of ‘Building Sustainable Peace in Iraq’, a special issue of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/risb20/15/4 On this episode, Simon and Shamiran talk about Shamiran’s work on Iraq, the special issue and her wonderful new book. Please do like, share and subscribe in all the usual ways. We even have a jingle now (thanks Eddie) so we’re contractually obliged to ask you to do this.