1. Amitav Acharya was born on 1962 and is a scholar and author, who is Distinguished Professor of International Relations at American University, Washington, DC, where he holds the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, and serves as the chair of the ASEAN Studies Initiative.
Amitav Acharya has held visiting positions at Australian National University, Stanford University, Sydney University, United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies, Vietnam National University, Central European University, and Ritsumeikan University.
Amitav Acharya was elected to a Christensen Fellowship at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford in 2012.
In 2016, Amitav Acharya was awarded the prestigious Odisha Living Legend Award from the Odisha Diary Foundation in his native state of Odisha and delivered the Living Legend Oration at Bhubaneswar.
Amitav Acharya has received two Distinguished Scholar awards from the International Studies Association: one from the Global South Caucus in 2016, and another from the International Organization section in 2018.
In 2022 Amitav Acharya won the International Studies Association Inaugural 2023 Distinguished Scholar Award.
Amitav Acharya's research combines and cuts across these different topics, often touching upon multiple themes in a single work.
Amitav Acharya again uses a case from Southeast Asia to illustrate the concept.
Amitav Acharya's work has attempted to bridge the gap between scholarship in IR and area studies by encouraging conversation between "regionally oriented disciplinarists" and "discipline-oriented regionalists".
Rather than compare with the EU, Amitav Acharya calls for studies in comparative regionalism to focus more on the specific regional contexts of regionalism projects and to develop more general criteria for comparison that are not based solely on the European experience.
In line with his focus on the role and contributions of the Global South to IR theory and practice, Amitav Acharya has advanced what he terms "Global IR".
In contrast to Ikenberry, Amitav Acharya finds evidence of an emerging "multiplex" world order, where there is an array of plots, directors, and action under one roof to choose from.
Amitav Acharya was the first Indian, Asian, and non-Western scholar to be elected as ISA President.
Amitav Acharya is the joint chief editor of the Studies in Asian Security series for Stanford University Press.
Amitav Acharya's work has been influential in shaping policy on Asian regionalism and human security.
Amitav Acharya has been interviewed as an international affairs expert by CNN International, BBC, BBC World Service Radio, CNBC, Channel NewsAsia, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Australia, National Public Radio, and Al Jazeera.
Amitav Acharya has published several articles in a wide range of International Relations journals.