POLIS Academic
Dr Amrita Narlikar, B.A. (Hons), M.A., M.Phil. (Oxon), D.Phil. (Oxon), Ph.D. (Cantab)
Reader in International Political Economy
Dr Amrita Narlikar is Reader in International Political Economy at the Department of Politics and International Studies, and is Official Fellow of Darwin College. She is also the Director of the newly established Centre for Rising Powers at POLIS. Prior to joining Cambridge as University Lecturer in 2004, Amrita held a permanent lectureship at the University of Exeter (2003-2004), won a Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Oxford (1999-2003), and held a Visiting Fellowship at Yale (Spring 2002). Her degrees include a Cambridge Ph.D. (by incorporation), an Oxford D.Phil. and M.Phil. from Balliol, an MA from the School of International Studies, JNU, Delhi, and a BA (Hons) in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. She will be the Visiting Professor in International Politics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in autumn 2010.
Amrita is the author and editor of numerous books and papers in the areas of trade politics, multilateral negotiations, and rising powers. Current projects include The Oxford Handbook of the World Trade Organization (which she is co-editing with Professors Martin Daunton and Robert Stern for Oxford University Press) and a co-authored book (with Professor Andrew Hurrell) entitled Pathways to Power: Brazil and India in International Regimes. She has served as a Commissioner on the First Warwick Commission on the Reform of the Multilateral Trading System, and is currently a member of the taskforce on the Global Poverty Summit. She is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at RIS (Research and Informational System for Developing Countries), Delhi.
Teaching and Administrative Responsibilities:
Dr Narlikar teaches the M.Phil. course on International Political Economy, and supervises M.Phil. and Ph.D students in International Relations and International Political Economy. She also teaches a module on the M.St. program on the Politics of the World Trade Organization. She is Chair of PhD Admissions and serves on several committees including the research committee, graduate education committee, and faculty board. She is also Faculty Convenor of the International Political Economy Research Group. Dr Narlikar will be on sabbatical in 2010-2011.
Research Interests:
Trade Politics, Negotiation Analysis, Rising Powers.
RECENT MAJOR GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
| 2010 | Visiting International Chair, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 2008 | Mellon/CRASSH Teaching Fellowship for Innovation in Teaching (with Professor Martin Daunton). |
| 2007 | Conference Grant by the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge to hold an inter-disciplinary conference in November 2007 on Breaking Deadlocks. |
| 2007 | Visiting Professorship, University of Brasilia (Declined). |
| 2003-06 | Nuffield Career Development Fellowship (with Dr Andrew Hurrell). |
| 2002 | Leitner Visiting Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, March – April, 2002. |
| 2002 | International Visiting Fellowship, Centre for International Studies, University of Southern California, 2002-2003 (Declined). |
| 2001 | First Hodson Memorial Essay Prize, The Round Table, Journal of Commonwealth Studies. |
Select Research Publications
BOOKS
Single-Authored Books
1. Amrita Narlikar, New Powers: How to become one and how to manage them, London: New York: Columbia University Press, London, Hurst, 2010 (x + 199 pages).
Early Reviews:
"Tension and even
warfare are likely when a new power emerges and an old power is
challenged. The achievement of Amrita Narlikar is to bring analytical
rigor to the recent emergence of India, China, and Brazil, and her
insights are equally applicable to the historical past, to the
emergence of Britain or Germany or the United States, as to the
present. She steers a deft course between the large-scale issues of the
shifting balance of power and the details of negotiating style which
are so important in mediating the interests of established and new
powers. She combines case studies with clear hypotheses to produce a
major study of a question that was vital for our past and will be for
our future."
- Martin Daunton, Professor of Economic History and Master of Trinity
Hall, University of Cambridge
"In her short but
impressively rich and well-written book, Amrita Narlikar presents
clearly argued analyses of the negotiation behaviour of three large
countries aspiring to become great powers of the world. New Powers
explains the different negotiating behaviours of India, China and
Brazil in a variety of institutional settings. Narlikar offers an
important contribution to the understanding of a changing world
together with well-founded advice for the negotiators of both new and
established powers."
- Hilmar Rommetvedt, Head of Research, International Research Institute
of Stavanger, Norway.
2.
Amrita Narlikar, The
World Trade Organization: A
Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
July 2005 (xx + 155 pages).
Translated into Chinese in 2008; into Arabic in 2009; also available as
an audio book since 2009.
Reviews:
''Narlikar's engagement with public debates is exemplary - a
task too rarely attempted by critical scholars in this area. This book
is a timely rejoinder to the fledgling study of global governance. An
exceptional introduction to the WTO, it also succeeds in doing much
more than is says on the tin.'' - Political
Studies Review, 4 (2), 2006.
''The author obviously
knows her subject...she succeeds well in giving an account of the
organization that is both accessible and engaging... If this is the
first thing that a student reads on the WTO, then he or she will be
well launched into their enquiry.'' - Professor Tony
Payne, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.
3. Amrita Narlikar, International Trade and Developing Countries: Coalitions in the GATT and WTO, London: Routledge, September 2003 (hardback), April 2005 (paperback) (xviii + 238 pages).
Reviews:
“Narlikar’s book is an
impressively rigorous and informed study of the role and efficacy of
bargaining coalitions, especially but not exclusively of developing
countries, for trade negotiations in both the GATT (especially the
Uruguay Round) and the WTO (up to Doha). The book is written in an
accessible style and provides a valuable addition to the collection of
anybody interested in multilateral trade negotiations.” – Professor
Oliver Morrissey, Journal of
International Development, 17, 2005.
“An important and insightful book of great interest to anyone
seeking to understand the dynamics of the past, present and future
negotiating rounds, as well as developing country coalition behaviour
in other international arenas.” – Dr Sean W. Burges, International Affairs,
80: 5, 2004.
Edited Books
4. Amrita Narlikar ed., Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (with an Introduction by the editor, co-authored Conclusion, and co-authored chapter in the volume) (hardback and paperback) (xiv + 320 pages).
Early Reviews:
“Amrita Narlikar, an
influential analyst of the issues relating to multilateralism, has
brought together some of the best contributions to this hugely
important subject. She deserves our gratitude and attention.”
- Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University, and
author of In Defense of Globalization
“This remarkable and
insightful volume is of great value to practitioners and analysts who
deal with deadlocks that may arise in multilateral negotiations of
various kinds. The range of solutions available for resolving the
different types of deadlocks is set out especially clearly and
comprehensively.” - Robert M. Stern, Professor of
Economics and Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy,
University of Michigan
“This
theoretically-sophisticated book makes a significant contribution to
the literature on negotiation. Its focus on the multilateral level is
particularly timely given the current stalemate in many global
negotiations.” - John Ravenhill, Australian National
University
“Amrita Narlikar offers
us a path-breaking theory to understand deadlocks in multilateral
negotiations. All the writers in this volume engage with this theory –
from the standpoint of different disciplines; law, politics, economics,
history, and international relations – and help to illuminate our
understanding of why deadlocks arise in multilateral negotiations. This
book is a “must read” for students and practitioners of multilateral
negotiations concerned with finding solutions to the many global
challenges of our time in trade, climate change and security issues!”
- Faizel Ismail, Head of the South African Delegation to the WTO, and
author of Mainstreaming Development in the WTO: Developing Countries in
the Doha Round (2007) and Reforming the World Trade Organization:
Developing Countries in the Doha Round (2009)
“Amrita Narlikar has put
together a valuable collection of essays on the ingredients of success
and failure in multilateral negotiations. The approach is
multi-disciplinary, as well as being both theoretical and empirical.
This book has a coherent and disciplined structure, as the authors of
individual chapters relate their analyses to the conceptual framework
laid out at the start by Narlikar. The volume makes a useful
contribution to our thinking about the dynamics of negotiation and how
to understand their results.” - Patrick Low, Chief
Economist, World Trade Organization
5. Amrita Narlikar and Brendan Vickers eds., Leadership and Change in the Multilateral Trading System, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht: Republic of Letters Publishing, 2009 (with co-authored Introduction and Conclusion by the editors, and single-authored chapter by Amrita Narlikar) (hardback and paperback), (v + 258).
Early Reviews:
...There's a famous
doggerel from the Bretton Woods negotiations: 'In Washington, Lord
Halifax whispered to Lord Keynes, they've got all the money bags and
we've got all the brains!' Today, as this excellent collection of
studies illustrates, much of the money bags are in, say, China. And the
brains are spread out all over the place. This is essential reading to
begin to understand the emerging new world order. … -
Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for
International Studies
… I recommend the volume
highly for both its analytical insights and the rich empirical evidence
that it has brought together. - Rajiv Kumar, Director,
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT
Amrita Narlikar, Martin Daunton, and Robert Stern (eds.) Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization, under contract with Oxford University Press, to be completed by January 2011.
Amrita Narlikar ed., Small States in International Economic Negotiations, The Round Table: Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Special issue to mark the centenary of the journal, scheduled for publication in July 2011.
PAPERS IN JOURNALS
Amrita Narlikar, India as a Rising Power: Where does East Africa fit in? Review of African Political Economy, accepted for publication, forthcoming December 2010.
Amrita Narlikar, New Powers in the Club: The Challenges of Global Trade Governance, International Affairs, 86 (3), May 2010, pp. 717-728.
Amrita Narlikar, Bargaining for a Raise? New Powers in the International System, Internationale Politik, August 2008.
Amrita Narlikar, Invited review article, What Rationality, Whose Design, Governance How?, Government and Opposition, 43 (1), January 2008, pp. 130-138.
Amrita Narlikar, Power and Legitimacy: India and the World Trade Organization, India and Global Affairs, Inaugural Issue, January-March 2008, pp.176-180.
Amrita Narlikar, All that Glitters is not Gold: India's Rise to Power, accepted for publication, Third World Quarterly, July, Vol. 28 (5), 2007.
Amrita Narlikar, Fairness in International Trade Negotiations, The World Economy, Vol. 29, No. 8, August 2006, pp. 1005-1028.
Amrita Narlikar, Peculiar Chauvinism or Strategic Calculation: Explaining the Negotiation Strategy of a Rising India, International Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 77-94.
Andrew Hurrell and Amrita Narlikar, The New Politics of Confrontation: Developing Countries at Cancun and Beyond, Global Society, Volume 20 (4), 2006, pp. 415-433.
Amrita Narlikar, The Ministerial Process and Power Dynamics in the WTO: Understanding Failure from Seattle to Cancun, New Political Economy, Volume 9, No. 3, September, 2004, pp. 413-428.
Amrita Narlikar and Diana Tussie, The G20 at the Cancun Ministerial: Developing Countries and their Evolving Coalitions in the WTO, World Economy, Vol. 27, No.7, July 2004, pp. 947-966.
Modified version of this paper translated into Portuguese and published in Revista Brasileira de Comercio Exterior, 2004.
Reprinted in From Cancun to Sao Paulo: The Role of Civil Society in the International Trading System, CUTS: New Delhi, 2004.
Amrita Narlikar and Rorden Wilkinson, Collapse at the WTO: A Cancun Post Mortem, Third World Quarterly, April, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2004, pp. 417-430.
Desmond King and Amrita Narlikar, The New Risk Regulators: International Organisations and Globalisation, Political Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 3, July-September 2003, pp. 337-348. Reprinted in Critical Perspectives on Globalization, edited by Marina Della Giusta, Uma Kambhampati and Robert Wade, Edward Elgar, 2005.
Amrita Narlikar, The Politics of Participation: Decision-Making Processes and Developing Countries in the WTO, The Round Table, The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 364, April 2002, pp. 171-185. Awarded the first Harry Hodson Memorial Prize by The Round Table. Reprinted in John Kirton ed., Global Trade, Ashgate, 2009.
Ngaire Woods and Amrita Narlikar, Governance and Accountability: the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank, International Social Science Journal, Vol. 53, No. 170, December 2001, pp. 569-583.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Amrita Narlikar, Adapting to New Power Balances: Institutional Reform in the WTO, in Thomas Cottier and Manfred Elsig eds., Governing the WTO: Past, Present, and Beyond Doha, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, to be published in 2011.
Amrita Narlikar, Evolving Trade Governance on the Formal-Informal Spectrum, in Thomas Christiansen and Christine Neuhold eds., Handbook of Informal Governance, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, to be published in 2011.
Amrita Narlikar, Reforming Institutions: Unreformed India?, in Alan Alexandroff and Andrew Cooper eds., Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance, Washington DC: Brookings, 2010.
Amrita Narlikar, Reforming Institutions: Unreformed India?, in Alan Alexandroff and Andrew Cooper eds., Rising States, Rising Institutions: Can the World be Governed?, Washington DC: Brookings, 2010.
Amrita Narlikar, Reforming the Multilateral Trading System: The Lessons of the Doha Negotiations, in Frank Trentmann ed., Free Trade, Fair Trade?, Smith Institute, 2009.
Amrita Narlikar and Diana Tussie, Agenda for Research: The G20 in the WTO, in Diana Tussie ed., The Politics of Trade, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2009.
Amrita Narlikar, Law and Legitimacy: The World Trade Organization, in David Armstrong ed., Handbook of International Law, London: Routledge, 2008.
Amrita Narlikar, India and the WTO, in Steve Smith, Tim Dunne, and Amelia Hadfield eds., Foreign Policy Analysis in International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Amrita Narlikar and Diana Tussie, Agenda for Research: The G20 in the WTO, in Diana Tussie ed., The Politics of Trade, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, forthcoming 2008.
Amrita Narlikar, Law and Legitimacy: The World Trade Organization, in David Armstrong ed., Handbook of International Law, London: Routledge, 2008.
Amrita Narlikar, All’s Fair in Love and Trade? Negotiating the Doha Development Agenda, in Donna Lee and Rorden Wilkinson eds., Endgame at the WTO? Reflections on the Doha Development Agenda, London: Routledge, 2007.
Amrita Narlikar and John Odell, The Strict Distributive Strategy for a Bargaining Coalition: the Like Minded Group and the World Trade Organization, in John Odell ed., Negotiating Trade; Developing Countries in the WTO & NAFTA, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Amrita Narlikar, Developing Countries and the WTO, in Brian Hocking and Steven McGuire eds., Trade Politics, second edition, London: Routledge, 2004.
Amrita Narlikar, States, Trade and the World Trade Organisation: Who Makes the Rules, in Simon Bromley, William Brown, Maureen Mackintosh and Marc Wuyts eds., Making the International: Economic Interdependence and Political Order, Open University, 2004.
Amrita Narlikar and Ngaire Woods, The Emergence of Coalitions in Services, in Diana Tussie ed., Trade Negotiations in Latin America: Problems and Prospects, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003.
Amrita Narlikar, ‘Café au Lait Diplomacy,’ for Diana Tussie and Miguel F. Lengyel, Developing Countries: Turning Participation into Influence, in B. Hoekman, A. Mattoo and P. English, Trade, Development and the WTO: A Handbook, Washington DC: World Bank, 2002.
Amrita Narlikar, Inter-State Bargaining Coalitions in Services Negotiations: Interests of Developing Countries, in Robert Stern ed., Services in the International Economy, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001.
WORKING PAPERS
Amrita Narlikar, Moving Beyond Fairness: Improving the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization, in Kalypso Nicolaidis, Matthew Eagleton-Price, and Emily Jones eds, Building Blocks for a Global Trade Ethics: A compendium of the Oxford Programme on Global Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University and German Marshall Fund, 2009, available at http://cis.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/Projects/Global_Trade_Ethics_BB.pdf.
Amrita Narlikar and Andrew Hurrell, Negotiating Trade as Emerging Powers, IRIS Working Paper, 2007/023, International Research Institute of Stavanger, Janary 2007.
Amrita Narlikar, Bargaining over the Doha Development Agenda: Developing Countries in the WTO, LATN Working Paper, Latin American Trade Network, Buenos Aires, October 2005.
Amrita Narlikar, Can Economic Integration promote Regional Cooperation, CUTS Working Paper, CUTS-International, Jaipur, India, December 2005.
Amrita Narlikar, WTO Institutional Reform: A Case for G20 Leaders?, CIGI Conference Paper, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Ottawa, June 2004.
Amrita Narlikar, WTO Decision-Making Processes and Developing Countries, T.R.A.D.E. Working Paper, No. 11, Geneva: South Centre, November 2001.
Amrita Narlikar, Back to the Excluded: A Focus on Developing Countries, Post-Seattle, Working Paper, Manchester Papers in Politics series, No. 4/ 01, December 2001.
Amrita Narlikar, Implications of the Asian Financial Crisis: Developing Countries in Bargaining Coalitions, Paper presented at the annual workshop of the International Political Economy Group, British International Studies Association, Hull, March 1999.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Membership of International Networks/Advisory Groups
Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford.
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Research and Information system for Developing Countries, New Delhi.
Member, Expert Committee (comprising 10 members), Project on Globalization and Disparity in the Developing World, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan, 2010-2012.
Member, Taskforce, Inaugural Global Poverty Summit, 2010-2011
Partner, Project on Political-Institutional Change in China, EU, India, and the US, Norwegian Research Council, January 2009 – December 2011.
Commissioner, Warwick Commission on the MultilateralTrading System after Doha.
Member, Four-member Advisory Group on WTO Negotiations, International Research Institute of Stavanger, Norway, Research Project funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2007-2010
Member of the Academic Council of the United Nations (and ACUNS representative to the WTO Cancun Ministerial, September 2003).
Member of the Latin American Trade Network, organised by Diana Tussie, LATN, FLACSO, Buenos Aires, Argentina, http://www.latn.org.ar/.
Member of Trade Negotiations Network, organised by John Odell, University of Southern California, http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~odell/.
Member of the International Political Economy Group, British International Studies Association.
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- E-mail: an283@cam.ac.uk
- Tel: 01223 767252
- Address: POLIS
Research Interests:
Trade Politics, Negotiation Analysis, Rising Powers