E545 | What did the international system look like before the rise of the West? What was the place of the Ottomans within it? How did the Ottomans claimed sovereignty and recognition from other states in the sixteenth century world order? In this episode Ayşe Zarakol discusses the rise and fall of Eastern world orders from the Mongol times to the mid-eighteenth century. She critically interrogates both Euro-centric and Sino-centric histories of international relations in order to emphasise the Chingisid universal claims and their evolution throughout the centuries. Considering the Ottomans within this longue duree history, Zarakol emphasises the notion of millenial sovereignty that put the Ottomans in competition with the Safavids and the Mughals and how the crisis of the seventeenth century dismantled this world order and contributed to a sense of decline.
More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/zarakol.html
Ayşe Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. In addition to Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Zarakol is the author of After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the editor of Hierarchies in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Zeinab Azarbadegan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the intersection of inter-imperial relations and history of science, technology, and medicine, in nineteenth century Ottoman Iraq
CREDITS
Episode No. 545
Release Date: 20 May 2023
Sound production by Zeinab Azarbadegan and Chris Gratien
Music: Monsieur Doumani - The System, Nima Janmohammadi - Dastgah Shur
Images and bibliography courtesy of Ayşe Zarakol https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/zarakol.html
