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Ayça Çubukçu

• Postdoctoral Research Scholar
  Committee on Global Thought
  Columbia University

Ayça Çubukçu received a Ph.D. with Distinction in political anthropology from Columbia University in May 2008, and also earned her M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from the same department. She holds a B.A. in Government with Distinction in All Subjects from Cornell University. Her dissertation, Humanity Must be Defended?, discusses possible vectors of divergence and convergence between "imperial" mobilizations of international law and ideas of humanity and human rights on the one hand, and "anti-imperial" ones on the other. Her dissertation addressed this concern through referencing the 2003 war on Iraq, locating conflicting political tendencies within various traditions in political praxis, philosophy, and international law. Çubukçu's publications include: Paradoxes of Sovereignty: War, Justice and the World Tribunal on Iraq (2006), a monograph published by World Politics/Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University; “Can the Network Speak?” a review of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, published in the Arab Studies Journal (2005); and “Neither Their War, Nor Their Peace” ["Ne Onlarin Savasi, Ne Onlarin Barisi": Emperyalist Savas ve Emperyal Baris Karsisinda Muhalefet] in Birikim (2005).