Rawi Abdelal

Rawi E. Abdelal is an American academic who is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School, in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. His research is in international political economy, focusing on the politics of globalization and the political economy of Eurasia.

Career Abdelal served as director of Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies from 2015 to 2022.

His first book, National Purpose in the World Economy, received the 2002 Shulman Prize, awarded for the outstanding book on the international relations of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. 2007 Author Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance Harvard University Press 2008 Editor The Rules of Globalization: Case Book World Scientific Publishing 2009 Co-editor Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists Cambridge University Press 2010 Co-editor Constructing the International Economy Cornell University Press