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Dr Amrita Narlikar, B.A. (Hons), M.A., M.Phil. (Oxon), D.Phil. (Oxon), Ph.D. (Cantab)
University Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Dr Amrita Narlikar is University Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, and is Official Fellow of Darwin College. 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.
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 is Editor-in-Chief of the book series, Studies in International Institutional Dynamics, published with the Republic of Letters (an offshoot of Brill), and has served as a Commissioner on the First Warwick Commission on the Reform of the Multilateral Trading System.
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, serves on the M.Phil. Admissions Committee and several other committees, and is Faculty Convener for the International Political Economy Research Group.
Research Interests:
Trade Politics, Negotiation Analysis, Rising Powers.
RECENT MAJOR GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
| 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
1. Amrita Narlikar, International Trade and Developing Countries: Coalitions in the GATT and WTO, London: Routledge, 2003 (2005: paperback edition).
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.
2. Amrita Narlikar, The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2005. (Translated into Chinese and Arabic, and forthcoming soon as an Audio Book)
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 and Brendan Vickers eds., Leadership and Change in the Multilateral Trading System, Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, 2009 (in press).
4. Amrita Narlikar ed., Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations: Causes and Solutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (in press).
5. Amrita Narlikar, New Powers: How to become one and how to manage them, London: Hurst, 2010 (under completion).
PAPERS IN JOURNALS
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, 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.
FORTHCOMING PAPERS
Amrita Narlikar, India’s Rise to Power: Where does East Africa fit in?, presented at the British Academy, November 2008.
Amrita Narlikar, Adapting to New Power Balances: Institutional Reform in the WTO, Workshop, World Trade Institute, September 2009.
Amrita Narlikar, Trade and Emerging Powers, Invited Special Issue, International Affairs, forthcoming 2010.
WORKING PAPERS
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
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.
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.
Editorial Activities:
Editor-in-Chief, Book series, Studies in International Institutional Dynamics, Martinus Nijhoff/Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands.
Member of Editorial Board: The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs; and Business and Politics.
Referee:
Journals: European Journal of International
Relations; Review of International Studies; The World Economy, Review
of International Political Economy; Review of International
Organizations; International Negotiation; Studies in Comparative
International Development; Journal of Development Studies; Global
Governance; Global Society; New Political Economy; The Round Table;
World Trade Review; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
Publishers: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, United Nations University Press, Palgrave, Sage Publications.
Media expertise:
WTO, trade negotiations, India in international institutions.
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- E-mail: an283@cam.ac.uk
- Tel: 01223 767252
- Address: POLIS
Research Interests:
Trade Politics, Negotiation Analysis, Rising Powers