Rawi Abdelal Session Overview

RAWI ABDELAL is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School. Abdelal’s primary expertise is international political economy, focusing on the politics of globalization and the political economy of Eurasia. His first book, National Purpose in the World Economy, won the 2002 Shulman Prize as an outstanding book on the international relations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. His second book, Capital Rules, explains the evolution of the international financial system’s social norms and legal rules. He is currently at work on two projects: The Fragile State of the World, which explores the interrelated challenges that undermined the first era of globalization and threatens to destroy the current age of global capitalism, and The Profits of Power, which explores the geopolitics of energy in Europe and Eurasia.