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
Amrita Narlikar was awarded her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University, 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.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.
Next, she worked in Germany from 2014 to 2024 as president of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies 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.
Books
Narlikar's books include:Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat, Penguin Random House India, 2023India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and Institutions, Oxford University Press, 2022Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 2020Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction- ''International Trade and Developing Countries: Bargaining Coalitions in the GATT & WTO''