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 most recent book has been published by Penguin Random House:

• Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat (co-authored)

Her previous books include:

• Poverty Narratives in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond, New York: CUP 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

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

Policy Advice

The policy relevance of her research brings Amrita into frequent and close exchange with practitioners. She has authored several policy briefs — e.g. for Munich Security Times, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, CIGI, Commonwealth Secretariat etc., and has had her expertise cited in a range of media outlets — e.g. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel, Die Welt, Spiegel Online, Deutsche Welle, NDR, BBC, 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