Divergent Worlds

Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University. Manjeet S. Pardesi is associate professor of international relations in the Political Science and International Relations Programme, and Asia research fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

Co-winner of ISA’s T. V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations Award“In this brilliantly argued and well-documented book, Acharya and Pardesi convincingly show that multiple world orders can co-exist and that hegemony of a single power is not always needed to maintain them. A must read for scholars and practitioners alike on world orders in their historical and contemporary manifestations.”—T. V. Paul, McGill University“Divergent Worlds breathes new life into the tired thinking about the classical Mediterranean in international relations. Beyond advancing our understanding of the past, this book also masterfully gets us to think more creatively about the future of current international order. It is a must-read for any IR scholar or student interested in order-making in world politics.”—Ayşe Zarakol, author of Before the West“A wonderful interdisciplinary study, drawing on the history of Maritime Asia to enrich International Relations analysis—suggesting the possibility of an alternative non-hegemonic order for the post-American world, and stressing the influence of ideas and not merely material power.”—Anthony Milner, Australian National University