Huri Islamoglu is former Visiting Fellow at Gateway House. She is been Professor of Economic History, Bogazici University, Istanbul; and former Visiting Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught at Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and New York University. Her publications include (with Peter Perdue) Shared Histories of Modernity in China, India and the Ottoman empire (2009), Constituting Modernity: Private Property in the East and West (2004), Ottoman Empire and the World Economy (1987); State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire (1994). She has written and lectured in fields of economic history, political economy, legal history, rural history, history of the state and administration, globalization and agriculture, global governance and law.
She is engaged in writing a world history. She focuses on the concern for government and in that relation law (statecraft) as a common thread that binds together histories of different world regions since the 15th century in a world historical of continued commercial expansion and military/political competition among political entities. Geographically her work addresses Ming and Qing China, Ottoman empire, Germany and England in the 19th centuries. She is also interested in issues of governing the present-day global societies, and what law is in that context. She is interested to participate in conversations with economic historians, historians who work on comparative or transnational history as well as in engaging in conversations with jurists on global governance and law.
Huri has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1979, an M.A. in Economic history, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972, has worked in the Economic History, Ph.D. program, at University of Chicago, 1967‑ 1969, Economics and History, BS University of Chicago, Ohio, 1965‑67, Economics
Expertise
World History, International Political Economy, Global Governance
The geopoliticisation of the Israel-Hamas war has given birth to a new era of ruthlessly pragmatic and overlapping interests of multiple powers and actors. This is visible in the region of Middle Eurasia, the centre of the ongoing rearrangement of the world order.
The Oslo Accords’ two-state solution for Palestine-Israel, visualised Gaza and the West Bank as self-governing entities under the Palestinian Authority. That political hope existed in an expanding global economy led by the U.S. and secured by American armies, with the promise of capital flows and investments to develop Palestine on its way to statehood. All this changed in the 2000s, as both Israelis and Palestinians became significant regional actors.
A shift is taking place in the business of global dominance and hegemony, from the model of expressing force through troop presence to financial sanctions. But China and Russia, in concert, may provide a way out of the sanctions regime.
Themes of rivalry between China and the U.S., of China's readiness to fill the void left by the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan, dominate accounts of recent developments in that country. What does China's inclusion in the power game in Asia, with a geopolitical vision remarkably different from that of the West, mean for the developments in Afghanistan?
The people of Afghanistan, torn by war, ethnic strife and geoeconomic contestation for their country’s rich natural resources, have paid by forsaking the assurances of daily life. But President Ashraf Ghani has shown them that normalcy can return and it is possible to hold regular elections. The author, a guest of the President and First Lady, travelled through the country in October 2018 to record her impressions of a resilient people who have reason to hope for a different future
The Kurdish issue is far more complex and sophisticated than the simplistic nationalist rhetoric, made fashionable by Europeans-- and which all actors in the game feel compelled to employ and have us believe
Aleppo is back under the control of the Syrian government, the Russian ambassador to Ankara is assassinated for his country’s role in Syria, and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump wants to cooperate with Russia to fight ISIS in Syria. These momentous events in modern history compel an assessment of the geopolitics surrounding Syria.
The July coup in Turkey did not achieve its objective of eliminating President Erdogan, who has, ironically, emerged a ‘national hero.’ Does this signal a new beginning? An analysis of the factors impending upon the colossal repair-and-rebuild task before the country.