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2023

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61
Citations
20518
World Ranking
106
National Ranking
64

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Overview

Amitav Acharya is affiliated with the American University in the United States and specializes in Social Sciences with a significant focus on Political Science and International Relations. Their scholarly output spans 31 publications predominantly in areas such as International Relations and Foreign Policy, Global Peace and Security Dynamics, and International Development and Aid.

Their research explores several thematic topics, including:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • International Development and Aid
  • Islamic Studies and History
  • Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • World Systems and Global Transformations

Amitav Acharya has produced a considerable body of work in Political Science and International Relations and has also contributed to Sociology and Political Science, Development, Education, and History.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Race and racism in the founding of the modern world order" (2022), published in International Affairs
  • "The Myth of the "Civilization State": Rising Powers and the Cultural Challenge to World Order" (2020), published in Ethics & International Affairs
  • "Multipolar or multiplex? Interaction capacity, global cooperation and world order" (2023), published in International Affairs
  • "The United Nations" (2020), published in Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations

The majority of their publications have appeared in the journal International Affairs, reflecting a strong presence with five publications. Other frequent publication venues include Ethics & International Affairs, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, International Studies Perspectives, and The Pacific Review.

Amitav Acharya has collaborated extensively with several scholars, with frequent co-authors including Barry Buzan, Peter J. Katzenstein, David Leheny, Thomas Christensen, and Stephan Haggard.

Regarding book publications, Amitav Acharya has contributed to titles published by Yale University Press and Cambridge University Press. Notably, the books include "Divergent Worlds" (2025) published twice by Yale University Press, and "Re-imagining International Relations" (2021) published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • How Ideas Spread: Whose Norms Matter? Norm Localization and Institutional Change in Asian Regionalism

    Amitav Acharya

  • Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order

    Amitav Acharya

  • Whose Ideas Matter?: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism

    Amitav Acharya

  • Ideas, identity, and institution‐building: From the ‘ASEAN way’ to the ‘Asia‐Pacific way'?

    Amitav Acharya

  • Non-Western international relations theory: perspectives on and beyond Asia

    Amitav Acharya;Barry Buzan

  • Why is there no non-Western international relations theory? An introduction

    Amitav Acharya;Barry Buzan

  • Global International Relations (IR) and Regional Worlds

    Amitav Acharya

  • Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective

    Amitav Acharya;Alastair Iain Johnston

  • Norm subsidiarity and regional orders: sovereignty, regionalism and rule-making in the Third World

    Amitav Acharya

  • Human Security: East versus West

    Amitav Acharya

  • The Emerging Regional Architecture of World Politics

    Amitav Acharya

  • The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia

    Amitav Acharya

  • Will Asia's Past Be Its Future?

    Amitav Acharya

  • After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order

    Amitav Acharya

  • Dialogue and Discovery: In Search of International Relations Theories Beyond the West:

    Amitav Acharya

  • Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia

    Amitav Acharya

  • The End of American World Order

    Amitav Acharya

  • Comparative Regionalism: A Field Whose Time has Come?

    Amitav Acharya

  • Democratisation and the Prospects for Participatory Regionalism in Southeast Asia

    Amitav Acharya

  • Bandung revisited : the legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for international order

    See Seng Tan;Amitav Acharya

  • The making of global international relations : origins and evolution of IR at its centenary

    Amitav Acharya;Barry Buzan

  • Whose Ideas Matter

    Amitav Acharya

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Buzan
Barry Buzan London School of Economics and Political Science
Alastair Iain Johnston
Alastair Iain Johnston Harvard University
Jorge I. Domínguez
Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard University
Paul F. Diehl
Paul F. Diehl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Miles Kahler
Miles Kahler American University

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