The Global Disorder Group are delighted to be hosting Professor Amitav Acharya, who will be presenting his new book The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization will Survive the Decline of the West.
Abstract
Our world is in Disorder. The problem of disorder has also led to bourgeoning conversations on the future of the West. Professor Acharya argues that the decline of the West is a good thing for world order.
The event
The event will be in person and online (please register for both using the same button above). It will be chaired by Dr Sasikumar Sundaram (Director, Global Disorder Group at City St George's), and will:
- Release Professor Amitav Acharya’s new book
- Provide an understanding of the global disorder and its future of the West
- Explore the challenges and opportunities for Global South states to shaped international order
- Outline priority topics in the area of research on Disorder, Civilizational Conflicts, and the future of the so-called rules based liberal order.
About the speaker
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Previously he was a Professor at York University, Toronto and the University of Bristol, U.K.
He is currently Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. He was the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, Fellow of Harvard’s Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Christensen Fellow at Oxford.
His books include Re-imagining International Relations (Cambridge 2022, with Barry Buzan), The Making of Global International Relations (Cambridge 2019: with Barry Buzan); Constructing Global Order (Cambridge 2018); The End of American World Order (Polity 2014, 2018); Why Govern? Rethinking Demand and Progress in Global Governance (editor, Cambridge 2016); The Making of Southeast Asia (Cornell 2013); and Whose Ideas Matter (Cornell 2009).
His essays have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Foreign Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, International Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, and World Politics.
He has written op-eds for Financial Times, International Herald Tribune (now International New York Times) Washington Post, Times of India, Australian Financial Review, and other newspapers around the world, and appeared on news media such as CNN International, BBC TV and BBC World Service Radio. He is the first non-Western scholar to be elected (for 2014-15) the President of the International Studies Association (ISA), the largest and most influential global network in international studies.
He has received three ISA Distinguished Scholar Awards: in 2015 for his "contribution to non-Western IR theory and inclusion” in international studies, in 2018 for his “influence, intellectual works and mentorship” in the field of international organization; and in 2023 for his “extraordinary impact” in globalizing the study of International Relations and “mentorship of emerging scholars”. He is also a recipient of American University’s highest honor: Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award (2020).
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