Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh was an External Associate at PRIO until 2016.
Tadjbakhsh has taken part in multiple PRIO projects. She is based in Paris, France, where she directs a concentration on Human Security at the Master’s of Public Affairs (MPA) at Sciences Po, Paris. She founded a program for peace and human security at Sciences Po and launched the Journal of Human Security/la revue de Sécurité Humaine.
Prior to moving to France in 2004, she was an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute for post-Soviet Studies (2002-2004). She has also been a visiting professor at Jamia Islamiya University, New Delhi (since October 2008), University of Pretoria, South Africa (February 2009), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Summer 2005), the Russian Centre for Strategic Research and International studies, Moscow (1994), and at the Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (1992). Between 1995-2002, she worked as a staff member of the UNDP in various field assignments in Central Asia, the CIS and Eastern Europe with a last posting as Policy Advisor to National Human Development Reports (NHDR) at the human Development Report Office in UNDP New York.
Tadjbakhsh holds a Bachelor's Degree from Georgetown University (1987), a Master’s Degree (1991) and a Doctoral Degree (1994) from Columbia University. She is of Iranian origin, an American citizen and a resident of France.
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Book Chapter in Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives
Book Chapter in Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives
Book Chapter in Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives
A new PRIO paper by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Mohammad Fazeli highlights how the conclusion of the nuclear deal and the lifting of the sanctions on Iran can be expected to alter relations with Afghanistan.
PRIO Associate Researcher Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh has just published a PRIO Paper entitled 'Regional Responses to Radicalization in Afghanistan: Obstacles, Opportunities and an Agenda for Action'. The paper is an output of the project Afghanistan in a Neighbourhood Perspective, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Several PRIO researchers have written on different aspects of the recent terror in France. Please follow this link for a collection.
The third and final case study from the Afghanistan in a Neighbourhood Perspective project is just published. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh analyzes the Persian Gulf sub-regional security complex and its relations with Afghanistan in the PRIO paper titled "The Persian Gulf and Afghanistan: Iran and Saudi Arabia's Rivalry Projected".
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A PRIO Paper from the project 'Afghanistan in a Neighbourhood Perspective' is just published. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh has authored the third paper in a series of four, titled Central Asia and Afghanistan: Insulation on the Silk Road, Between Eurasia and the Heart of Asia.
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In the first of three case studies from the Afghanistan in a Neighbourhood project, Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh analyzes the South Asian Security Complex, notably India and Pakistan as the two main players, and their relations to Afghanistan.
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PRIO Research Associate Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh has edited the peer reviewed anthology Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives (Routledge, Cass Series on Peacekeeping, 2011).