FEATURED
BIO
AMITAV ACHARYA is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC, He also holds the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance since 2011.
He was previously Professor of International Relations at York University, Toronto and Professor of Global Governance, University of Bristol, UK. He has also taught at the National University of SIngapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was a Fellow of the Asia Center, Harvard University, and Fellow of the Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was elected to be the President of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2014-15.
His areas of research and writing include Southeast Asian Affairs, Asian Security, International Relations Theory, and Comparative Regionalism. He has published widely on Southeast Asian and Asian regionalism, and the diffusion of ideas and norms in world politics. Professor Acharya’s publications cover both academic and public affairs topics and number over 25 books and 200 journal and magazine articles.
He has published in the top academic and policy journals such as International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, World Politics, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Asian Studies. He is the Co-Chief Editor of the Studies in Asian Security series for Stanford University Press, widely regarded as the best book series in the field of Asian security. In April 2011, he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the subject of human security. He has been a Consultant to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNESCO and a host of national development agencies on issues related to development, security and cooperation.
Books:
- The End of American World Order
- Rethinking Power, Institutions and Ideas in World Politics
- Non-Western International Relations Theory, co-edited with Barry Buzan
- The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region
- The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia
- Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia
- Whose Ideas Matter: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism