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About the speaker

Prof Ayse Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Her most recent book, Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders, which advances an alternative global history for IR focused on (Eur)asia, was published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press. This book retheorises sovereignty, order and decline from a more global perspective.

Her research is at the intersection of historical sociology and IR, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, history and future of world order(s), conceptualisations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective.

She grew up in Istanbul, Turkey has degrees from Middlebury College, Vermont (BA in Political Science and Classical Studies)and University of Wisconsin - Madison (MA and PhD in Political Science). She was Assistant Professor in Politics at Washington & Lee University, Virginia, until moving to Cambridge University in 2013.

About this event series

Director's Seminars are an opportunity for audiences to get an in-depth theoretical perspective on sustainable and inclusive prosperity. These Seminars are given by academics who are pushing for new ways of thinking and new ways of researching society's grand challenges.

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