Head of the Department,
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Ashoka University
Quintijn Kat is an Assistant Professor of international relations at Ashoka University and has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, UK. He 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 of the Americas from the Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK. During his doctoral studies, he was the recipient of a Prins Bernhard Fellowship and a Mullerfonds Fellowship. 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 of small and weak states, which he particularly studies by examining the United States and Latin America.
Inter-American relations, Latin American politics, hegemony, agency in IR, the role of weaker/smaller states, US foreign policy.
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