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Kian Tajbakhsh – What Makes a Good Mayor?

Kian Tajbakhsh | Tales of My Two Cities | August 11, 2021

Posted on Mon. Aug 16, 2021

Tajbakhsh – Not voting in New York and Tehran

Why not voting means different things in Tehran and New York City

Posted on Fri. Jul 23, 2021

Kian Tajbakhsh – Iran’s Presidential Election: Opportunity or Dead End?

Iran’s upcoming presidential elections could have important implications for the country's political future as well as ongoing nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Sada asked three

Posted on Tue. Jun 15, 2021

Kian Tajbakhsh and Saskia Sassen – Danger of Density: The Future of Cities and Migration in a Post-COVID World.

Kian Tajbakhsh and Saskia Sassen | Columbia Global Centers | April 1, 2021

Posted on Thu. Apr 1, 2021

Kian Tajbakhsh – Iran at 1400 The case for a new century of hope

Kian Tajbakhsh | Columbia DC | March 18, 2021

Posted on Thu. Mar 18, 2021

Authoritarian state building through political decentralization and local government law: Evidence from the Islamic Republic of Iran

Kian Tajbakhsh | 2020 | Oñati Socio-Legal Series

Posted on Thu. Dec 3, 2020

Kian Tajbakhsh signs “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

Posted on Wed. Jul 8, 2020

Tajbakhsh – Can the US export the first amendment? Global complications of freedom of speech

February 20, 4:00-6:00pm, Library Lecture Room

Posted on Thu. Feb 20, 2020

Tajbakhsh – Reading Rorty in Tehran. Or what happened when I road-tested Rorty’s philosophy of life inside an Iranian Prison

Reading Rorty in Tehran. Or what happened when I road-tested Rorty’s philosophy of life inside an Iranian Prison

Posted on Sun. Nov 24, 2019

Tajbakhsh – The Political Economy of Fiscal Decentralization in Iran

Kian Tajbakhsh presented his paper on The Political Economy of Fiscal Decentralization in Iran at the meeting of the CIRS Working Group: The Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East

Posted on Mon. Sep 30, 2019