This Roundtable will discuss non-European views of Europe, with a focus on contemporary Turkey, India, China and Russia.  Each panelist will draw on her/his area of geographical expertise to address European/non-European relations from the perspective of these specific countries, with the broader aim to reconsider Europe’s changing place in today’s international affairs. 

Ezgi Basaran is a journalist who made her name covering Turkey’s Kurdish conflict. She started her career in 2004 at Hurriyet daily as a reporter. After accepting an offer to write a daily column on Turkish politics, she became the youngest ever editor of Radikal, the biggest centre-left news outlet in Turkey, and the first woman to hold the role. Ezgi served as the coordinator of the Programme on Contemporary Turkey at the South East European Centre (SEESOX) at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where she explored the bridge between journalism and academia. She holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford and is a Doctorate of Philosophy (DPhil) candidate in Oriental Studies at the same university. Her current research focuses on the interplay between North African Islamist movements – especially Egyptian, Tunisian, and Moroccan – and Turkish Islamism. Her book Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East is published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury in October 2017. Ezgi is an Istanbulite living in Oxford.

Kira Hugu is a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), University of Oxford. She received her MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from DPIR. She is currently working on a monograph entitled The Cosmopolitan Elite Revisited: Indian Diplomats and the Transnational Hierarchies of Belonging, which narrates the birth, everyday life, and fracturing of a Western-dominated international order from its margins. As Departmental Lecturer, she serves as the Course Provider for the undergraduate PPE option The Politics of South Asia. She also works as thesis and general supervisor for seven graduate students at OSGA and DPIR. 

Rana Mitter is Director of the University of Oxford China Centre. He works on the emergence of nationalism in modern China, both in the early twentieth century and in the present era. He is the author of several books, including Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (2008, new ed. 2016), and the award-winning A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (2004).  His most recent book China’s War with Japan, 1937-45: The Struggle for Survival (US title: Forgotten Ally) was named as a 2013 Book of the Year in the Financial Times and the Economist, was named a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, and won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature. He presents and and contributes regularly to programmes on television and radio, commenting on contemporary Chinese politics and society. His television documentary “The Longest War: China’s World War II” was broadcast on the History Channel Asia in summer 2015.  His reviews and essays have appeared in newspapers including the Financial Times, International New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Caijing, and Outlook (India).

David Priestland is interested in the history of two of the most influential global ideologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, communism and market liberalism ('neoliberalism'), especially in the communist and post-communist worlds. He is working on the history of market liberalism with special reference to the former communist world, exploring how market liberal ideas and practices interacted with their competitors. His early research was on the History of the Soviet Union, concentrating especially on the relationship between ideology, politics and political culture in the interwar era, and the origins of the Stalinist repressions of the late 1930s (Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization. Ideas, Power and Terror in Interwar Russia (Oxford University Press)). He then expanded his focus to explore the history of global communism. His book, The Red Flag. Communism and the Making of the Modern World (Allen Lane, Penguin Press) combined a comparative approach with a broadly narrative structure, and was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Prize for the best history book of 2010. 

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This Roundtable will discuss non-European views of Europe, with a focus on contemporary Turkey, India, China and Russia.  Each panelist will draw on her/his area of geographical expertise to address European/non-European relations from the perspective of these specific countries, with the broader aim to reconsider Europe’s changing place in today’s international affairs. 

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