Head of the Department,
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Ashoka University
Ph.D. University College London
Quintijn Kat is an Assistant Professor and the Head of the Department of International Relations at Ashoka University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick, UK. Previously taught at the Jindal School of International Affairs and spent visiting research stints at George Washington University, USA, and the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He was also a Research Fellow with the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Quintijn received his PhD in International Relations from University College London, UK. He also holds degrees from King’s College London and the University of Amsterdam.
Quintijn’s scholarly work has a geographical focus on the Americas. His main research interests are hegemony, asymmetrical relations, and the agency and foreign policy of small and weak states, especially Latin American states, international norms, and Global International Relations. He is currently completing a monograph (under contract with Cambridge University Press), provisionally titled ‘Deference and Defiance: Latin American Agency and the US Hegemonic Order’. His work has been published in the International Studies Review, Latin American Politics and Society, and International Studies Perspectives.
Inter-American relations, Latin American politics, hegemony, agency, the role of weaker/smaller states, US and Latin American foreign policy, Global IR, International Norms.
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