Amrita Narlikar

Amrita Narlikar is an academic specializing in international relations, international negotiations, the political economy of international trade, and the role of rising powers in global politics.

Career

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Amrita Narlikar was awarded her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University (Balliol College),[1] on an Inlaks Scholarship and was appointed to a junior research fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. She also has a master's degree from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a bachelor's degree in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.[2]

Narlikar was a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford from 1999 to 2003, and continued as a research associate in the Oxford Centre for International Studies until 2014. After a year as a lecturer at the University of Exeter, she became a lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, and full professor at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2015, and a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 2008 to 2015.[2]

Next, she worked in Germany from 2014 to 2024 as president of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and as a professor in International Relations at the University of Hamburg. In 2024 she returned to India as a distinguished fellow of the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi. She continues to hold honorary positions as a fellow of Darwin College and as a distinguished fellow of the Australia-India Institute at the University of Melbourne in Australia.[2]

Books

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Narlikar's books include:

  • Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat (co-authored), Penguin Random House India, 2023[3]
  • India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and Institutions (co-edited), Oxford University Press, 2022[4]
  • Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 2020[5]
  • Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata (co-authored), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014[6]
  • The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (co-edited), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012[7]
  • Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions (edited), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010[8]
  • New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them (2010)[9]
  • The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction (2005)[10]
  • International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining Coalitions in the GATT & WTO (2004)[11]

Personal life

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Narlikar is the daughter of author Aruna Narlikar and physicist Anant V. Narlikar, and the granddaughter of physicist Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ British Library eTheses
  2. ^ a b c "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  3. ^ Review of Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat:
  4. ^ Review of India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and Institutions:
  5. ^ Reviews of Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond:
  6. ^ Reviews of Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata:
  7. ^ Reviews of The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization:
  8. ^ Reviews of Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions:
    • J. P. Singh (2011), International Affairs, JSTOR 20869625
    • Andy Smith (2012), Revue française de science politique, JSTOR 43122662
  9. ^ Reviews of New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them:
  10. ^ Review of The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction:
  11. ^ Reviews of International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining Coalitions in the WTO:
    • Sean W. Burges (2004), International Affairs, JSTOR 3569499
    • Wyn Grant (2004), "Is a More Multilateral Trade Policy Possible?", Review of International Studies, JSTOR 20097936
    • Oliver Morrissey (2005), Journal of International Development, doi:10.1002/jid.1107
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