Check out his new book, State-Building as Lawfare
Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya, here:

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📣 New episode!

What happens when there are multiple rules of law - when state law overlaps with religious and customary law? What does this mean for marriages, child custody, and even murder?

Egor Lazarev discusses his research on postwar Chechnya:

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

Check out Niloufer's book here!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...

📢 New episode!

Why do political parties use violence to achieve their goals in some political contexts but not in others?

@niloufersiddiqui.bsky.social talks with us about her award-winning new book on violence as electoral strategy in Pakistan.

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/episode-39

📢 New episode!

What happens when criminal gangs partner with politicians to influence elections?

@jessietrudeau.bsky.social shares with us her research in #Brazil 🇧🇷 and discusses the implications of "machine gun politics" for democracy.

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

📢 new episode out: What College Dorms can teach us about Culture

@ricarthuguet.bsky.social learns from college students at Makerere University in Uganda 🇺🇬 how culture develops and persists among its randomly assigned college dorms.

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...