Join us for an MIT-Brown-Harvard Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Avidit Acharya.
Dr. Avidit Acharya is a professor of political science at Stanford University who specializes in political economy and formal political theory. His first book, “Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics” (Princeton University Press, 2018), received the William H. Riker Award for the best book in political economy in 2019. His second book, “The Cartel System of States: An Economic Theory of International Politics” (Oxford University Press, 2023), provides a new understanding of the territorial state system as it developed through time and exists today. His work has also been published in both economics and political science journals and has received awards like the Elinor Ostrom Best Paper Award.
Discussant: Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
This event is part of the Seminar on South Asian Politics, co-hosted by Brown University, MIT, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University
