Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School and the Director of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. ^[1][2]

In 1999 Abdelal earned a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, where he had received an M.A. in 1997. At Cornell Abdelal's dissertation won the Kahin Prize in International Relations and the Esman Prize. He was a President's Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. with highest honors in Economics in 1993. Recent honors include Harvard Business School's Greenhill Award, Apgar Award for innovation in teaching, and Williams Award for excellence in teaching, as well as, on several occasions, the Student Association's Faculty Award for outstanding teaching..

Professor Abdelal's primary expertise is international political economy, and his research focuses on the politics of globalization and the political economy of Eurasia.

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.

His second book, Capital Rules, explains the evolution of the social norms and legal rules of the international financial system.

Abdelal has also edited or co-edited three books: The Rules of Globalization, a collection of Harvard Business School cases on international business; Measuring Identity; and Constructing the International Economy.

Abdelal is currently at work on two projects.

One project, The Fragile State of the World, explores the inter-related challenges that undermined the first era of globalization, circa 1870-1914, and which threaten to destroy the current age of global capitalism.

The second project, The Profits of Power, explores the geopolitics of energy in Europe and Eurasia.

Winner of the 2002 Marshall Shulman Prize for Outstanding Book on International Relations for National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective (Cornell University Press, 2001).

Received the 2002 Robert F. Greenhill Award.

Winner of the Harrison Prize for Best Article Published in Political Studies during 1998 for "The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992" (June 1998).

Awarded the 2016-2017 HBS One Harvard Faculty Fellowship.

Received the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Economics at Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Received the 2013 Robert F. Greenhill Award.

Received the 2012 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Received the 2012 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Received the 2011 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Received the 2004 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Abdelal, Rawi, Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons, eds.

Constructing the International Economy.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.

Abdelal, Rawi, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott, eds.

Measuring Identity.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Abdelal, Rawi, ed. The Rules of Globalization: Case Book. Singapore: World Scientific, 2008.

Abdelal, Rawi. Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Abdelal, Rawi. National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Abdelal, Rawi, Kevin Carmody, Meagan Hill, and William J. Pearson.

"The CFO's Role in Capability Building."

McKinsey Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights (April 22, 2021).

Abdelal, Rawi. "Populism, the Pandemic, and the Crisis of Globalization."

Valdai Discussion Club (May 28, 2020).

Abdelal, Rawi. "The Pandemic and the Price of Power."

Russia in Global Affairs (April 7, 2020).

Abdelal, Rawi, and Aurélie Bros. "Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism: Iran, Russia, and the Unintended Division of the West."

Notes de l'Ifri (January 23, 2020).

(Also published as "The End of Transatlanticism?

How Sanctions Are Dividing the West," Horizons, no. 16 (spring 2020), pp. 114-134.)

Abdelal, Rawi, and Galit Goldstein.

"How Russia Found a Disinformation Haven in America."

National Interest (May 28, 2019).

Abdelal, Rawi, and Alexandra Vacroux.

"Insight on Syria: What Are Putin's Motives?" Epicenter (April 3, 2018).

Abdelal, Rawi, and Sophie Meunier.

"Mondialisation: la French Touch."

Telos (October 12, 2007).