Join us for our Annual Dinner
with guest speaker, Atlanta native:

Professor Rawi Abdelal

Harvard Club of GA members who have heard Professor Abdelal lecture in Cambridge have said "he is the best we have heard at describing the state of the world today."  An expert in geo-politics and global economics, Professor Abdelal lectures on, among other things,  the roots on the European Union (and where it might be going) and on the status of the Greek crisis.

His book "National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective" won the Shulman Prize for Outstanding Book on International Relations.

Professor Abdelal also won the HBS Student Association's Faculty Award for outstanding teaching.

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Topic: Is Globalization Over?

Bio:
Rawi E. Abdelal is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. His primary expertise is international political economy, and he is a faculty associate of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Professor Abdelal's first book, National Purpose in the World Economy, won the 2002 Shulman Prize as the outstanding book on the international relations of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He recently completed his second book, Capital Rules, which explains the evolution of the social norms and legal rules of the international financial system.

Recent honors include Harvard Business School's Robert F. Greenhill Award and the Student Association's Faculty Award for outstanding teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Education:
Abdelal was a President's Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. with highest honors in Economics in 1993. He earned a M.A. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 1999, both in Government and from Cornell University. At Cornell, Abdelal's dissertation won the Kahin Prize in International Relations and the Esman Prize.

Books:
Abdelal, Rawi, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott, eds. Measuring Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Abdelal, Rawi, Blyth, Mark, and Parsons, Craig. Constructing the International Political Economy. New York, Cornell University Press: 2010.
Abdelal, Rawi, ed. The Rules of Globalization: Case Book. Singapore: World Scientific, 2008.
Abdelal, Rawi. Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Abdelal, Rawi. National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001. (Winner of the 2002 Shulman Prize for Outstanding Book on International Relations.)