On May 18, Amitav Acharya,the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, the President of the International Studies Association (ISA) and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C.visited our School. He conducted two wonderful academia lectures for teachers, undergraduate students and postgraduate students of our school.

In the lecture, Professor Amitav Acharya reviewed the development history of international relations and looked forward to the future trend of the discipline.

After the lecture, Sha Yongzhong, the Vice President of Lanzhou University, hold a meeting with Professor Amitav Acharya, accompanied by Yao Zhihai, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School, Wang Jinguo, Dean of the School, Zeng Xianghong, the Deputy Dean of the School and Wang Tingting, the Deputy Director of Admonition of the School.

Background:Amitav Acharya is currently the Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is Distinguished Professor of International Relations and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. His books include: The End of American World Order (Polity 2014, and Oxford India 2015); The Making of Southeast Asia: The International Relations of a Region (Cornell 2013); and Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (Cornell 2009). His articles have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Peace Research, and World Politics. He was President of the International Studies Association (ISA) during 2014-15.