Prof. Ayşe Zarakol

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. Her research sits at the intersection of historical sociology and IR, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, the history and future of world order(s), conceptualisations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective. She recently published 'Before the West: Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders' in 2022 with Cambridge University Press.