Ayşe Zarakol

Ayşe Zarakol (born 1977) is a Turkish academic, scholar and author. Quotes What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history. What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fray connective tissues. If you were living in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth century, you would not think Europe was the center of the world, you would think “Asia” (whatever you called it) was the center of the world Even more so than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there are major structural trends that are threatening to change the way we experience politics: climate change, developments in technology such as AI or shifts in how we do finance such as bitcoin and other similar technologies. (2022) External links Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:Fellows of the British Academy Category:Women academics from Turkey Category:Non-fiction authors from Turkey Category:Women authors from Turkey Category:People from Ankara