Owning the City: Property Rights in Authoritarian Regimes Book Launch

Please register to attend this newly added seminar of the Foreign Policy Institute's Fall 2022 Speaker Seminar on Russia-Europe-Eurasia. Professor Matthias Matthijs is joined by FPI Senior Fellow Charles Gati in moderating a discussion with Dr. Marsha Olive on her upcoming book, Owning the City: Property Rights in Authoritarian Regimes. Published by Columbia University Press, 2022, the link to purchase can be found here: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/owning-the-city/9781788214681

This book:

• reveals how private urban property is a source of power as well as vulnerability for Presidents Putin and Erdogan
• puts cities at the center of the debate on democracy and autocracy, and
• shows why governance of land is a key success factor for cities in the twenty-first century

Please register via Zoom for virtual participation: https://jhubluejays.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkcuisrDsiG9VL2gRn7320BKSH6eSVKVNG

Please register via EventBrite here for in-person participation (with lunch provided).