Amitav Acharya: 11 books
The Making of Southeast Asia
international relations of a region
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War...
Whose Ideas Matter?
Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the...
by Amitav Acharya
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming...
by Amitav Acharya
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The study of international relations, has traditionally been dominated by Western ideas and practices, and marginalized the voice and experiences of the non-Western states and societies. As the world moves to a "post-Western" era, it is imperative that the field of IR acquires a more global...
Constructing Global Order
Agency and Change in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
For a long time, international relations scholars have adopted a narrow view of what is global order, who are its makers and managers, and what means they employ to realize their goals. Amitav Acharya argues that the nature and scope of agency in the global order - who creates it and how - needs to...
Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia
ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In this third edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia, Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the evolution of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management. Building on the framework...
Indonesia Matters
Asia's Emerging Democratic Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world after China, India and the United States. It is also the world's largest Muslim majority country and the third largest democracy. Its economy is currently the 10th largest on the global scale. Indonesia is recognized as an emerging power,...
Singapore's Foreign Policy
The Search for Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2007
The conventional understanding of Singapore's foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by the imperatives of being a small state; second, its primary purpose is to ensure Singapore's survival, given its small size; and third, this logic of survival dictates...
Age of Fear (Routledge Revivals)
Power Versus Principle in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
First published in 2004 in the immediate wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, this is an accessible commentary intended to provoke thought and debate on the topic of terrorism. In a collection of challenging essays, questions consider the causes of terrorism and why post-modern terrorism is...
U.S. Military Strategy in the Gulf (Routledge Revivals)
Origins and Evolution Under the Carter and Reagan Administrations
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
First published in 1989, this title explores the nature and dimensions of the U.S. strategy in the Gulf in the formative years that followed the fall of the Shah, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war. It describes the formation of the U.S. Rapid Deployment Joint...
The Making of Global International Relations
Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
This book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it. By tracking the development of thinking about IR, and the practice of world politics, this book...