Amitav¿Acharya is an award-winning author and distinguished professor of international affairs at American University.¿He has written for¿the¿Washington Post,¿Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs,¿among many other media outlets, and he has appeared on¿CNN,¿NPR, the BBC, and Al Jazeera. He was born in India and has lived and worked in Singapore, Canada, UK, China and the United States.