Amrita Narlikar

Amrita Narlikar is an academic specializing in international relations, international negotiations, and the political economy of international trade. She served as the President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) from 2014 to 2024 and held a professorship in International Relations at Hamburg University. Before her time in Germany, she was a Reader in International Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, a position equivalent to Professor.

Narlikar's research focuses on topics such as international negotiations and the role of rising powers in global politics. She is the daughter of author Aruna Narlikar and physicist Anant V. Narlikar, and the granddaughter of physicist Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar.

Career

Amrita Narlikar was awarded her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University (Balliol College), 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.

Before moving to Hamburg, she held the position of reader in international political economy at the University of Cambridge and a fellowship at Darwin College. She was also a senior research associate at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2014.

Publications

Amrita Narlikar has authored/edited twelve books. Her books include:

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

She has also published numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, Global Policy, etc.

External links

• Amrita Narlikar's Website at GIGA Hamburg
• POLIS faculty page
• Global Policy Journal
• Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte
• Wir brauchen eine neue Form der Globalisierung