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KCL

A conversation about historical sociology and international political sociology - the podcast is available here.

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Recorded on 18 October 2018. Participants: Dr. Leonie Ansems de Vries (King’s College London), Prof. Sandra Halperin (Royal Holloway, University of London), Prof. Jef Huysmans (Queen Mary, University of London), Dr. Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge), Alvina Hoffmann (King’s College London, chair).

LAbour Party 2018 Conference (Liverpool)

'The End of Democracy? The ‘New Turkey’ and a Region in Flux'​ panel, organised by Centre for Turkey Studies, UK (25 September 2018).

For a write-up of the panel, see here.
For a text of my talk, see here.

Turkey and Thailand:
Unlikely Twins Revisited

Columbia University, March 1, 2018, with 
Professor Duncan McCargo

For an overview of the event, see here.
For an audio recording, see here.

Related articles: 
  1. Journal of Democracy (2012)
  2. ​International Studies Quarterly (2013)

Hierarchies in world Politics book talk

University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada, November 1, 2017.

Talk covering the Hierarchies research agenda in IR and locating Hierarchies in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017) within that broader agenda.


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YOugov experts Panel

Vodcast: Does the West need a new approach to Russia? - including: Lord Richards of Herstmonceux GCB CBE DSO (former UK Chief of the Defence Staff); Dr Ayşe Zarakol (University Lecturer in International Relations, University of Cambridge); Martin Jacques (author, broadcaster & speaker); and Daniel Hannan (Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England).

Recorded on June 26, 2017. Related survey info available here.

Nobel Institute, Oslo

Public Talk, June 9, 2016. Talk summarises key themes from my research agenda, especially as they relate to problems of stigmatisation/recognition.

LSe

Book launch panel for The Global Transformation by Barry Buzan and George Lawson, March 17, 2015. My comments summarise my thoughts on the state of IR as a discipline.
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I also occasionally appear on the Talking Politics podcast, hosted by David Runciman. A top 50 podcast in the UK. 
Here is a sample episode I was in:

David talks to Ayşe Zarakol about how Erdoğan accumulated so much power and what lessons his story provides for democracy in other places