Manjeet S Pardesi

Associate Professor of International Relations, Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington

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 Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is the co-author of Divergent Worlds: What the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Can Tell Us About the Future of International Order, published by Yale University Press in 2025, https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300214987/divergent-worlds/.

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Written by Manjeet S Pardesi

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The world without hegemony

As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come

Manjeet S Pardesi & Amitav Acharya