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Ayşe Zarakol

@aysezarakol.bsky.social
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IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...

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FALTER. Die Wochenzeitung aus Wien @falter.at · 17/12/2025
Was können wir von Genghis Khan lernen, @aysezarakol.bsky.social? In dieser Folge „Future Discontinuous“, unserem Podcast gemeinsam mit dem @iwm.at, diskutieren @mishaglenny.bsky.social und @evakonzett.bsky.social gemeinsam mit der Wissenschaftlerin über die globale Ordnung. bit.ly/3YvPlka
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Podcast: What Can We Learn from Genghis Khan, Ayşe Zarakol?
Are we witnessing a new 17th century, and what can previous world orders tell us about the current geopolitical moment?
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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · 17/12/2025
🎙️New podcast episode out! Did global order really begin in Europe—and are we now entering a long age of disorder? Listen to the latest FD episode with IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social on empires, strongmen, and what might come after the nation state: buff.ly/QSFpsSD 🤝 @falter.at
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We’ve surveyed ‘Non-Western Visions of International Order’ for Annual Review of Political Science vol 29 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Non-Western Visions of International Order
The scholarship on the concept of order has been expanding within international relations. The continuous upheaval of world politics first triggered a broad debate on the resilience of the liberal int...
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International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our online special issue, The Future of Global Governance and World Order, is out! It features 15 short essays plus the editors' introduction, all #OpenAccess. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #IOFoGG
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Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Please join us next week for the LSE launch of Kerry Goettlich's terrific new book, 'From Frontiers to Borders', with an all-star panel of @aysezarakol.bsky.social, Joanne Yao, and Edward Keene. Weds 29 Oct. 6.30pm. No registration necessary. All welcome. Details below www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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From Frontiers to Borders: How colonial technicians created modern territoriality
6.30pm Weds 29 Oct | Kerry Goettlich, Eddie Keene, Joanne Yao, Ayşe Zarakol | Free public event at LSE
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Always a pleasure to talk to David, this time about the book I am writing now - A world history of strongmen
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Quite appalling. U of Chicago’s management has achieved the impossible feat of making the UK universities seem well-run in comparison www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · 16/08/2025
‪Are we living through an unprecedented 'polycrisis' or have we seen this before? 🗺️ Join IR scholar @aysezarakol.bsky.social and @us.theguardian.com editor Betsy Reed at this year's Vienna Humanities Festival, as they examine whether history does indeed rhyme: humanitiesfestival.at/zarakol
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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
#OpenAccess - Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’ - cup.org/45b9yPh - Michael Barnett & @aysezarakol.bsky.social #FirstView
Logo for International Theory, featuring the text "International Theory" and "#OpenAccess" over a stylized globe background.
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Tomorrow
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We have a few spaces left still. This Friday
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Reminder, next week!
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Now available for pre-order from OUP, more musings by me and others about the 1990s... global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Our annual IR-History conference is a happening a bit later this year, but it is happening. The theme is 'Times of Disorder'. If you work in the IR-History space, do join us to meet likeminded researchers. ECRs especially welcome! Please register for free at tinyurl.com/June13Cam
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
An article I could have written but have not written has mysteriously appeared on my Google Scholar page with two citations (now hidden). It has a journal name, volume, page numbers what have you. Pretty good journal too. Thanks ChatGPT, I guess? 🤔
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...
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Certainty and Strange Thoughts - The Ideas Letter
Zarakol reflects on the collapse of the post–Cold War liberal international order and contrasts today's disorientation with the bold, definitive visions offered by thinkers like Fukuyama, Huntington, ...
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Submissions for SSHA's Sharlin Memorial Book Prize are now open for any social science history book published in 2024. I am chairing the committee this year. ssha.org/awards-and-p...
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Sharlin Memorial Book Prize | Social Sciences History Association
Allen exemplified the finest traditions of social science history. His training and scholarship were broadly interdisciplinary and he used both quantitative and more traditional methodologies.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 08/05/2025
Social media platform X has blocked the account of Ekrem İmamoğlu, a leader of Turkey's opposition movement and political nemesis of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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Musk’s X blocks account of jailed Erdoğan rival
Musk’s platform is challenging the government order to block Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s account.
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Can we have a ten year moratorium on handbooks please 🙏
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Getting hassled about my railcard for a tiny discount on an extremely overpriced journey on a train with no flat surfaces to work on, no wifi + half the way is a bus replacement 💁‍♀️
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Yet another day of travelling to Oxford for an event and realising it is almost easier to travel internationally. It’s amazing we manage to collaborate at all
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
IO has just released a call for short essays on the future of IR, given all that is going on. Deadline June 15 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...?
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Call for Submissions: Special Section on the Future of IR
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Cambridge IR & History group hosted Julia Costa Lopez @jcostalopez.bsky.social today for her presentation on ‘Can women rule? A processual approach to legitimacy and international order through a 15th century succession dispute’. Looking forward to the book version of the project!
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Talking about global disorder with my academic fathers in Tokyo @davidleheny.bsky.social
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Amazing performance by the Cambridge teams today! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing...
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Boat Race 2025: Cambridge win men's & women's races
Cambridge continue their recent dominance over Oxford by winning the men's and women's Boat Races in London.
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Talking about Trump and other strongmen www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
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How do Donald Trump’s policies change other countries’ politics?
Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we examine how Trump is boosting the domestic popularity of some leaders abroad—and making life more difficult for others
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hard to pay attention to the academy these days but do check out Martin’s excellent article on elites & ontological security @campolis.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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What's the Deal with Elites? The Role of Political Elites in Identifying Critical Situations in Ontological Security Theory
Abstract. Traditionally, Ontological Security Studies (OSS) have focused on the anxieties and crises of unitary states. More recent scholarship, however, h
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Starmer’s silence criticised by Turkish opposition www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkeys...
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Turkey's opposition threatens to block UK Labour return to Socialist International
CHP leader Ozgur Ozel blasts Labour and Keir Starmer for silence over Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's arrest, saying 'they will face consequences from me'
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Autocrats behaving badly: Donald Trump emboldens global strongmen
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Autocrats behaving badly: Donald Trump emboldens global strongmen
From Turkey to Israel, leaders make the most of a world without US censure
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Major and timely collection from @chathamhouse.org on competing visions of international order including a contribution on Turkey co-authored by @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow @aysezarakol.bsky.social www.chathamhouse.org/2025/03/comp...
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Competing visions of international order | 13 Envisioning the future international order
Responses to US power in a fracturing world
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I thought I had cured myself of 'being too distracted by breaking developments to concentrate on work' but the last week has shown it was all hubris on my part
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Erdoğan seems to have concluded -likely rightly- that the international environment is permissive enough for him to do whatever he wants. Pretence is no longer required
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Way to go Jaakko & Ethnos of the Earth! www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
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Ethnos of the Earth
Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Ethnos of the Earth
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I made a meme. Americans unhappy with Trump need to accept there is not a normal to go back to.
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Giovanni Mantilla @giofabman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Recent chapter co-authored w @caschulz.bsky.social: "The Turn to the History of International Law in the Field of International Relations. In: Lesaffer R, Peters A, eds. The Cambridge History of International Law. The Cambridge History of International Law. Cambridge University Press; 2024:136-161."
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The Turn to the History of International Law in the Field of International Relations (Chapter 4) - The Cambridge History of International Law
The Cambridge History of International Law - November 2024
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
And a great panel it was for a great book, now available from Cambridge UP
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Our forum on Jens Bartelson's magisterial Becoming International is now out in Global Intellectual History (as organised by Kim Hutchings and Jaakko Heiskanen). Including pieces by Or Rosenboim, Quentin Bruneau, Regan Burles, me, and of course Jens himself... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Introduction: The International between History and Theory
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The current state of American politics is like a big-budget Hollywood remake of a foreign language movie many of us have seen already
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This Thursday, IR-History Working Group at Cambridge
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The transcript of our Bilkent debate in September where I unexpectedly found myself defending Global IR (all debate positions are relational…)
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Great to hang out with the great IR/politics group at Exeter, with special thanks to @profalexp.bsky.social for inviting me
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This Thursday in Cambridge
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Don't forget to nominate your 2024 book or article for APSA International History and Politics Section prizes. Deadline January 31st! connect.apsanet.org/s34/nominati...
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Nominations
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In two weeks, an exciting talk about informers
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A conversation with John de Bhal of the Reimagining World Project (Princeton) open.spotify.com/episode/0M7d...
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Reimagining World Order · Episode
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Stray observation: I am constantly struck by how little Western observers attempt to connect the dots between the dynamics in various conflicts in what used to be called ‘the Near East’ (roughly the +2/3 GMT time zone from north to south)
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Ayşe Zarakol @aysezarakol.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It’s undergraduate admissions week in Cambridge! Tomorrow I/we will be interviewing candidates face to face for the first time since 2019. An ongoing experiment of sorts…
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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in our 2023 volume are free to read until the end of this year - cup.org/3Vo2Ph1 With papers by @moritz-graefrath.com, @janinadill.bsky.social, @aysezarakol.bsky.social, @drjohnnygilmore.bsky.social, @victoriahui.bsky.social & more
International Theory graphic with subtitle
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Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Happy to announce the birth of a new book! How/why did empires relentlessly expand - and worked together? Not competition but transaction and cooperation was key to the Age of Empires in the long 19th century. With brilliant colleagues Erik de Lange & Ozan Ozavci: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/securing-...
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Securing Empire
This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of int…
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