Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair

The Centre annually hosts a distinguished international expert on security issues, the Sir Howard Kippenberger Visiting Chair in Strategic Studies.

Professor Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. This lecture draws on his forthcoming book of the same name, which was listed by the journal Foreign Policy as one of its“Most Anticipated Books of 2025".

Acharya's major works include: Re-imagining International Relations (Cambridge 2022, with Barry Buzan), 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); Why Govern? Rethinking Demand and Progress in Global Governance (editor, Cambridge 2016); The Making of Southeast Asia (Cornell 2013); and Whose Ideas Matter (Cornell University Press 2009). His articles and op-eds have appeared in leading journals and periodicals including, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, Times of India, Australian Financial Review, and YaleGlobal Online.