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College News
Tuesday
28
NOV
2023
The College community are absolutely thrilled that our Fellow in International Relations, Professor Ayse Zarakol, has been awarded the Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science for her outstanding work at the intersection of historical sociology and international relations. She is the first recipient of the Medal in the International Relations discipline, and received her award in Istanbul at Koç University.
Her work retheorises of sovereignty, order and decline from a more global perspective. Her most recent book 'Beyond the West' investigates the grand narrative of (Eur)Asia as a space connected by overlapping successive world orders originating from the Mongol Empire. It also uses that history to rethink the foundational concepts of international relations, such as order and decline. This publication has won over 5 'best book' awards, including the 2023 Allan Sharlin Award from the Social Science History Association, and the 2023 International Studies Association Northeast Conference Yale H. Ferguson Award.