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  • Comment: Draft is insufficiently supported by significant coverage in reliable, independent, secondary sources (not the subject's own website or university profiles). Large sections are devoid of inline citations Paul W (talk) 11:48, 27 March 2024 Update: Scholar has multiple international book awards and is now a fellow of the British Academy. This far exceeds the notability requirement for wikipedia.(UTC)
Ayse Zarakol
Born
NationalityTurkish, American, British
OccupationProfessor of international relations

Ayşe Zarakol is a Turkish academic teaching international politics at the University of Cambridge[1] where she is a Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Studies and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College.[2] She is known for her work on world order, sovereignty and East-West relations.[3] She was made a fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences in 2024.[4]

Early life and education

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Zarakol was born in Ankara. Her father is cartoonist and director Cihan Zarakol and her mother is public relations consultant Necla Zarakol.[5] After spending a year as an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., she joined the University of Cambridge in 2013.[6]

Works

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Zarakol's contributions to international relations can be categorized under two main headings. Her early work focused on the social hierarchies between East and West since the 19th century.[7] Her first book After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West was published in 2011. The book focuses on the inclusion of internationally defeated and non-Western powers (Turkey after the First World War, Japan after the Second World War and Russia after the Cold War) into the international order.[8] Her second book, Before The West, focuses on Eastern world orders between the 13th and 17th centuries, orders comparable in some ways to the modern international order.[9] She argues that the Mongol Empire was a politically unifying moment for Asia and, like the Roman Empire for Europe, has a legacy that extends into subsequent centuries. It also develops a broader definition of sovereignty and makes important interventions in contemporary debates on international crisis. Before the West has won six book prizes.[10]

Zarakol has written pieces on Turkey for general audiences, in outlets such as Foreign Policy,[11] Project Syndicate[12] and the London Review of Books blog.[13]

Zarakol was the 2023 recipient of the Koç Medal of Science, given annually to one scholar of Turkish origin for outstanding contributions to their discipline.[14][15][16]

Selected works

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  • After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West. 2011. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 'Hierarchies in World Politics', International Organization vol. 70, no. 3 (2016): 623-54.
  • Hierarchies in World Politics. 2017. Edited. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 'Struggles for Recognition: The Liberal International Order and the Merger of its Discontents', International Organization (75th Anniversary Special Issue edited by David Lake, Lisa Martin and Thomas Risse) 75.2 (2021): 611-34.
  • Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. 2022. LSE International Studies Book Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Personal life

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Zarakol is married and has one child.

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Ayse Zarakol". 24 October 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Professor Ayse Zarakol FBA". The British Academy.
  3. ^ "Ayşe Zarakol". Belgrade Security Forum. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  4. ^ "British Academy elects Cambridge researchers to Fellowship | University of Cambridge". www.cam.ac.uk. 2024-07-18. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
  5. ^ "New Names in the IDA Hall of Fame: Ceyda Aydede and Necla Zarakol". www.ida.org.tr. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  6. ^ Zarakol, Ayse. "Ayse Zarakol". Ayse Zarakol. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Hierarchies in World Politics | IBEI". www.ibei.org. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  8. ^ Zarakol, Ayşe (2010). After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-19182-1.
  9. ^ "The Mongols and the Modern International Order: An Interview with Ayşe Zarakol". Voices On Cental Asia. 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  10. ^ "John Ruggie ISA Best Book Award". www.isanet.org. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  11. ^ Zarakol, Ayse (2024-02-22). "Biden's Victory Is No Balm for American Exceptionalism". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  12. ^ Zarakol, Ayşe (2023-05-11). "Turkey's Democratic Resilience | by Ayşe Zarakol". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  13. ^ Zarakol, Ayşe (2023-02-17). "Ayşe Zarakol | Akhenaten in Ankara". LRB Blog. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  14. ^ Mason, D. (2023-11-29). "Professor Ayşe Zarakol is awarded the Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science". www.polis.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  15. ^ "Prof Zarakol awarded Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science". www.emma.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
  16. ^ "Koç University Rahmi M. Koç Medal Of Science – 2023 - Koç Üniversitesi". 2023-11-23. Retrieved 2024-02-13.