Ayşe Zarakol
@aysezarakol.bsky.social
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...
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
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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🎙️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
We’ve surveyed ‘Non-Western Visions of International Order’ for Annual Review of Political Science vol 29 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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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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
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...
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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Always a pleasure to talk to David, this time about the book I am writing now - A world history of strongmen
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 10mo agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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-...
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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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
#OpenAccess - Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’ - cup.org/45b9yPh - Michael Barnett & @aysezarakol.bsky.social #FirstView
Tomorrow
Ayşe Zarakol@aysezarakol.bsky.social · last yr.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
We have a few spaces left still. This Friday
Ayşe Zarakol@aysezarakol.bsky.social · last yr.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
Reminder, next week!
Ayşe Zarakol@aysezarakol.bsky.social · last yr.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
Now available for pre-order from OUP, more musings by me and others about the 1990s... global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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
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? 🤔
Why do we have such difficulty making sense of our current moment? I brainstorm some possible answers www.theideasletter.org/essay/certai...
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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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...
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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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.
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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Can we have a ten year moratorium on handbooks please 🙏
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 💁♀️
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
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...?
Call for Submissions: Special Section on the Future of IR
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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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!
Talking about Trump and other strongmen www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
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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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...
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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Starmer’s silence criticised by Turkish opposition www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkeys...
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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giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Autocrats behaving badly: Donald Trump emboldens global strongmen
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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