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SUMMARY:Fireside Chat with Ayşe Zarakol - Prof Ayse Zarakol (University o
 f Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Ayşe Zarakol is a Professor of International Relations at the
  University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. She gr
 ew up in Istanbul\, Turkey and moved to the US to attend Middlebury Colleg
 e\, Vermont (BA in Political Science and Classical Studies). Her graduate 
 degrees are from University of Wisconsin - Madison (MA and PhD in Politica
 l Science).\n\nHer research is at the intersection of historical sociology
  and IR\, focusing on East-West relations\, history and future of world or
 der(s)\, conceptualisations of modernity and sovereignty\, rising and decl
 ining powers\, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective. Her arti
 cles can be found in journals such as American Political Science Review\, 
 International Organization\, International Affairs\, International Theory\
 , International Studies Quarterly\, European Journal of International Rela
 tions\, Review of International Studies\, among many others.\n\nShe is the
  author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambr
 idge University Press\, 2011)\, which deals with international stigmatisat
 ion and the integration of defeated non-Western powers (Turkey after WWI\,
  Japan after WWII and Russia after the Cold War) into the international or
 der. This book was also published in Turkish as Yenilgiden Sonra: Doğu Ba
 tı ile Yaşamayı Nasıl Öğrendi from Koç University Press (first in 2
 012\, later reprints in 2019\, 2023\, 2024). Between 2013 and 2017\, she o
 versaw an international collaboration which produced Hierarchies in World 
 Politics (Cambridge University Press\, 2017) [2019 ISA Theory section Hono
 rable Mention]. \n\nHer most recent book\, Before the West: the Rise and F
 all of Eastern World Orders\, which advances an alternative global history
  for IR focused on (Eur)asia\, was published in 2022 by Cambridge Universi
 ty Press. This book retheorises sovereignty\, order and decline from a mor
 e global perspective. It has won best book prizes from the Social Science 
 History Association (SSHA Sharlin Award)\, International Studies Associati
 on (ISA Ruggie Award)\, International Studies Association Northeast (ISA-N
 E Ferguson Award)\, ISA History section (HIST Guicciardini Prize)\, ISA Th
 eory section (Best Book Honorable Mention) and American Political Science 
 Association International Politics and History section (Jervis and Schroed
 er Award Honorable Mention).\n\nZarakol won the Rahmi Koç Medal of Scienc
 e in 2023\, given annually to one Turkish scholar under the age of 50 for 
 outstanding international contributions to their discipline. She was elect
 ed a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academia Europea in 2024. In 20
 24\, she was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Copen
 hagen.\n\nZarakol's research has been recognised and supported by a number
  of funding bodies and professional associations such as the Council on Fo
 reign Affairs\, the Norwegian Nobel Institute\, ERC\, RCN\, CRASSH (Univer
 sity of Cambridge). At the moment she is leading a multiple year British A
 cademy Knowledge Frontiers grant that bring IR scholars and Global histori
 ans together to study historical periods of disorder.\n\nZarakol is curren
 tly an Associate Editor at International Organization (2022-7). Her next b
 ook will be a world history of strongmen (William Collins [UK]\; Atlantic 
 Grove [US]).\n\nSpeakers:\nProf Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Lecture Theatre)\, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
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