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Amitav Acharya
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@AU_SIS The Once & Future World Order: "an erudite overview of 5,000 years of world history" (New York Times). I don't recycle history, I rediscover it.
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Jan 7
    Trump has broken the world’s faith in relying on the US as a provider of public goods. When and if the US decides to return to multilateralism, it will still be viewed not as the "indispensable nation," but as an "indispensable rogue". Here is my first essay of 2026: "The
    The World-Minus-One Moment
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Mar 25, 2021
    Barry Buzan & I have signed a contract with Cambridge for our new joint book, “Re-Imagining International Relations: If IR had Emerged from India, China, or the Islamic World”. It’s a prequel to our Making of Global International Book (2019). It’s my 5th with Cambridge, thanks.
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Nov 6, 2020
    The moment & the TV screenshot I (& millions around world) was waiting for!! #bidenharis2020
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Mar 25, 2024
    Please join the debate. My response to @FareedZakaria column in @washingtonpost last week: 1. Zakaria argues that the "The world of a rules-based international order... emerged from the European enlightenment", mentioning specifically Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant. My
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Sep 30, 2020
    I tell those who disparage area studies or privilege IR over area studies that much of IR theory is actually is European/American area studies masquerading as universal & that in most parts of the world, IR rode on the back of area studies.
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    Dave Kang
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    Sep 30, 2020
    Yeah, I'm an area specialist. I am, in fact, proudly an area specialist. I know more than you about East Asia. You got a problem with that?
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Apr 1, 2022
    Caught up with Barry Buzan in Nashville #ISA2022 We started our collaboration on Non-Western IR and Global IR in 2005 and published our third book last year.
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Jun 3, 2023
    US no to Ukraine ceasefire entirely understandable; it has little to lose to keep war going, but lot to gain: more gas & arms sales, more European submissiveness. Real stress is for Europe (incl. Ukrainian people) & poorer nations (high energy, food etc).
    Blinken says no Ukraine cease-fire without Russia’s withdrawal
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Jul 8, 2021
    In keynote to Bangkok Indo-Pacific Conf, I said: 'Asia' was built by nationalists, 'Asia-Pacific' by economists, 'East Asia' by culturalists, 'Indo-Pacific' by strategists. Though ASEAN is in geographic center, I-P idea promoted by outside powers may erode its autonomy & identity
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Feb 26, 2020
    Sad to think that Mahathir could have prevented the crisis by handing over power to Anwar as originally agreed. And that would have been the democratic outcome. Instead, Malaysia’s democracy is now at risk. str.sg/JNcH
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Sep 17, 2020
    IR theory will be more “practical” if it reflected the world of today, not of 19th or early and mid-20th centuries. Unfortunately it does not; a good deal of current IR literature is past its “use by date” (my reply to a friend from Europe, on how IR theory can be practical)
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Mar 12, 2022
    Here is a review essay I just published in Perspectives on Politics: Before the “West”: Recovering the Forgotten Foundations of Global Order. March 2022 | Vol. 20/No. 1 265 doi:10.1017/S1537592721003601 cambridge.org/core/services/…
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Mar 23, 2022
    Global IR Section of @ISAnet has been approved! Thanks 500+ members behind the petition. The new section supports @ISAnet towards a globally inclusive IR across academic & identity barriers. Further info on activities soon. Contact [email protected] See ya #ISA2022
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Mar 17, 2022
    I sense the Ukraine conflict, NATO boosting & sweeping sanctions might resurrect Western triumphalism. The use of the term ‘West’ has exploded. It could energize supporters of the old order, as they contest the idea of a post-Western world. Interesting times for IR scholars
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    Amitav Acharya
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    Sep 23, 2021
    Re-imagining International Relations | Barry Buzan and Amitav Acharya cambridge.org/us/academic/su… via @CUPAcademic