Rawi E. Abdelal
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management Emma Bloomberg Co-chair, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School and the Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.
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. In one, The Fragile State of the World, Abdelal narrates the inter-related challenges that threaten to destroy the current system of global capitalism. In The Profits of Power, the second project, Abdelal explores the geopolitics of energy in Europe and Eurasia--and how those politics created but later undermined the Russian-European energy relationship.
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.
September 2024
Rawi Abdelal | E-mail: rabdelal@hbs.edu