Research Interests

Dr. Acharya's academic interests cover Southeast Asia, international relations of the Third World and international relations theory. His current affairs commentaries cover such topics as Asian security, the war on terror, and the rise of China and India.

Professional Presentations

• "Reconstructing ASEAN: Challenges for the 21st Century,” Inaugural ASEAN Secretariat Policy Forum Lecture, Jakarta, Indonesia, 16 July 2009.
• “Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism,” Asian Development Bank, Manila, 5 August 2009.
• “The EU in International Affairs”, Panelist at International Conference organized by the GARNET Network, Brussels, 24-26 April 2008.
• “Why is there no Non-Western IR Theory?” Lecture to the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 26-30th July, 2008.
• Keynote Speaker at University of Birmingham’s conference on 'Still the Asian Century?', 10-12 September, 2008 on the topic of “The Future of Asian Security Order.”
• Keynote Speaker at the GARNET Annual Conference on "Mapping Integration and Regionalism in a Global World" in Bordeaux on 17-18 September, 2008 on the topic of "Regional Worlds in a Post-Hegemonic Era." GARNET is a Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU funded under the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme and comprising 42 leading research centres and universities.
• “The Evolution of Asian Regionalism,” Lecture at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, 28 November 2007.
• Speaker at the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR), Annual Conferences in Seoul, 2003, Shanghai, 2004, Singapore 2006 and Kuala Lumpur 2008. The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations is student-run organization of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
• “International Relations Theory and Western Dominance: Rethinking the Foundations of International Order,” Lecture delivered at the “Reenvisioning Global Justice/Global Order” Seminar Series, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University, 22 February 2007.
• “East Asia’s New Multilateralism: Hopes and Illusions,” Lecture at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, 23 February 2007.

Selected Publications

He has published in journals including:

• International Organization
• International Security
• World Politics
• Journal of Peace Research
• Pacific Affairs
• Washington Quarterly

His current affairs commentaries have appeared in:

• Financial Times
• Foreign Affairs (Online)
• International Herald Tribune
• Straits Times
• The Nation
• Jakarta Post
• Canberra Times
• Far Eastern Economic Review
• Japan Times
• YaleGlobal Online

Selected Publications

• US Military Strategy in the Gulf (Routledge 1989)
• A New Regional Order in Southeast Asia (IISS 1993)
• New Challenges for ASEAN (UBC 1995)
• The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia (Oxford 2000)
• Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2001, 2009)
• Asia Pacific Security Cooperation (M.E. Sharpe 2004)
• Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Politics (Cambridge 2007)
• Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (MIT 2007)
• Singapore’s Foreign Policy; The Search for Regional Order (World Scientific 2007)
• The Age of Fear: Power Versus Principle in the War on Terror (New Delhi: Rupa and Co. and Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2004)
• Asia Rising: Who is Leading? (Singapore and New York: World Scientific, 2007)
• Whose Ideas Matter: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (Cornell, 2009)

Media Appearances

His international media appearances have been with CNN International, BBC World Service, CNBC and Channel News Asia (Singapore).