Fulya Apaydin is an Assistant Professor at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain. Her work is situated at the intersection of comparative politics and international studies with a particular emphasis on the political economy of development. Broadly, she is interested in how investment policies across emerging economies are transformed in face of global pressures, and how political actors respond to these challenges at the local and national levels. Her current research examines the implications of international capital flows on development, focusing on diverse financialization experiences in the Global South. Fulya holds a PhD from Brown University. Previously, she has been a visiting researcher at Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as World Development, Regulation and Governance, Socio-economic Review, Nationalities Papers, European Political Science, and European Journal of Development Research, among others. She is the author of Technology, Institutions and Labor: Manufacturing Automobiles in Argentina and Turkey (Palgrave, 2018)
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