Amitav ACHARYA is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. He is currently Honorary Professor, Rhodes University and Professor Extraordinarius, University of Pretoria, and Guest Professor, Nankai University. He was the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, Fellow of Harvard’s Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Christensen Fellow at Oxford. His books include The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West (Basic Books 2025); The Making of Global International Relations (Cambridge 2019: with Barry Buzan); Constructing Global Order (Cambridge 2018); The End of American World Order (Polity 2014, 2018); The Making of Southeast Asia (Cornell 2013); and Whose Ideas Matter (Cornell 2009). His essays have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, and World Politics. He is the first non-Western scholar to be elected (for 2014-2015) the President of the International Studies Association (ISA). He has received three ISA Distinguished Scholar Awards. In 2020, he received American University’s highest honor: Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award.