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SUMMARY: Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Dr. Amitav Acharya
DESCRIPTION: The Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture moves online for
2021 with Dr. Amitav Acharya\, UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges an
d Governance\, and Distinguished Professor at the School of International S
ervice\, American University\, Washington\, DC.
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About the Mark Zacher
Distinguished Visitor Program:
The Mark Zacher Distinguis
hed Visitor Program was created by members of the Department of Political S
cience\, with the support of Mark Zacher’s family and many of his former st
udents\, to honour his contribution to the teaching\, understanding and sch
olarship of international affairs. Annually\, we invite one prominent schol
ar\, leader\, or senior elected official who has made significant contribut
ions to the field of international affairs to give a series of lectures\, a
nd to meet with students\, faculty\, and community members.
This year
\, the Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture will be hosted online. We
are thrilled to host Dr. Amitav Acharya as the 2021 Mark Zacher Distinguish
ed Visitor\, who will present a talk titled\, "What Can the Past Tell Us Ab
out the Future of the World Order." This is a highlight event of our year t
hat brings together our alumni\, faculty\, students and emeriti for a topic
of wide interest from a prominent speaker\, and that provides an opportuni
ty for all members of our Political Science and International Relations com
munity to connect and socialize.
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What Can the Past Tell Us About the Future of the World Order
In
recent years\, there has been much anxiety in the West over the fate of “w
orld order”\, by which most analysts mean the US-led\, West- dominated “Lib
eral Order”. Yet\, there is little agreement over what might replace it\, e
.g.: multipolarity\, a China-centric world\, or collapse. This lecture sugg
ests that the decline of the present liberal order long predated populist T
rump\, and will continue under the internationalist Biden. But historically
\, world orders have never been permanent\, nor have they been the monopoly
of any single civilization\, Western or non-Western. Behind the veneer of
the currently-dominant Western world order\, there lies a long history of o
ther world orders founded on different and intersecting civilizations. The
key elements of the modern world order\, such as republicanism\, great powe
r management\, norms of war and peace\, secularism\, scientific enquiry\, a
nd economic globalization\, that many take for granted as uniquely and excl
usively Western contributions\, actually have multiple and diverse points o
f origin. As Western dominance erodes\, world order’s diverse and pluralist
ic foundations will increasingly define the 21st century\, trigg
ering new pathways to both stability and disorder.
Bio
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Dr. Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and G
overnance\, and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Serv
ice\, American University\, Washington\, DC. He is the first non-Western sc
holar to be elected (for 2014-15) as the President of the International Stu
dies Association (ISA)\, the largest and most influential global network in
international studies. Previously he was a Professor at York University\,
Toronto and University of Bristol\, U.K. He was the inaugural Nelson Mandel
a Visiting Professorship in International Relations at Rhodes University\,
South Africa\, the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relation
s at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University\, Fellow of Har
vard’s Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government\, and Christens
en Fellow at Oxford.
His books include The Making of Global Inter
national Relations (Cambridge 2019: with Barry Buzan)\; Constructing G
lobal Order (Cambridge 2018)\; The End of American World Order (Po
lity 2014\, 2018)\; Why Govern? Rethinking Demand and Progress in Globa
l Governance (editor\, Cambridge 2016)\; The Making of Southeast A
sia (Cornell 2013)\; Whose Ideas Matter (Cornell 2009)\; and
Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge\, 2
001\, 2009\, 2014).
He has received two Distinguished Scholar Awards
from the ISA\, one in 2015 from its Global South Caucus for his "contributi
on to non-Western IR theory and inclusion” in international studies\, and a
nother in 2018 from ISA’s International Organization Section that recognize
s “scholars of exceptional merit…whose influence\, intellectual works and m
entorship will likely continue to impact the field for years to come”. In 2
020\, he received American University’s highest honour: Scholar-Teacher of
the Year Award.
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