Efe Can Gürcan is the Vice Dean of Research and Development for the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at Istinye University, Turkey. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Belt and Road Studies at Istinye University and Research Associate at the University of Manitoba's Geopolitical Economy Research Group. His publications include four books as well as more than 30 articles and book chapters on international development, international conflict and cooperation, and political sociology, with a geographical focus on Latin America and Eurasia. He is author of Multipolarization, South-South Cooperation and the Rise of Post-Hegemonic Governance and co-author of Neoliberalism and the Changing Face of Unionism: The Combined and Uneven Development of Class Capacities in Turkey, Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park: From Private Discontent to Collective Class Action, and COVID-19 and the Future of Capitalism: Postcapitalist Horizons Beyond Neoliberalism.