Amitav Acharya ✓

@AmitavAcharya · Washington, DC · joined 16 Jul 2011

@AU_SIS Once & Future World Order: "erudite"@nytimes “monumental”@IAJournal_CH “palliative to newscycle noise”@csmonitor

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Amitav Acharya ✓@AmitavAcharya13 Sep

This is a very thoughtful & balanced take on Delhi #BRICS Summit: between the extremes of “cancel” the group (without any convincing justification) & those who over-hype its influence. The side meetings like Xi-Modi are useful. BRICS is not the savior of emerging powers, or of 5.2K views · 37 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Amitav Acharya ✓@AmitavAcharya12 Sep

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, I wrote a series of op-eds & articles, with the key premise that the post-9/11 world order would be defined more by "fear politics" than traditional “power politics”: more powerful nations would become more fearful rather than secure: which ht

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Amitav Acharya ✓@AmitavAcharya11 Sep

Ended my 2 and half day invitation visit to Cornell University with a panel discussion on the Future of International Order in a room named after legendary nuclear scientist and Nobel winner Hans Bethe who was a professor there. And then a visit to the Johnson museum to see its

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Amitav Acharya ✓@AmitavAcharya9 Sep

Really enjoyed delivering the Gatty Lecture on Southeast Asia at Cornell University few hours ago. I covered why & how Southeast Asia has been an incubator of some of the most influential ideas in political economy, comparative politics and IR (“dual economy, “plural society,” ht

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Amitav Acharya ✓@AmitavAcharya21 Aug

Attention university and school teachers preparing syllabus for a new academic year on International Relations/Global Studies, & looking for something new & different from standard texts. You may consider using as a text my book: The Once and Future World Order. It’s accessible 4.7K views · 60 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 501this account956median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.46%this account3.52%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.04%this account1.57%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 501	956	1.57×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.46%	3.52%	1.27×
Engagement rate	2.04%	1.57%	1.29×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

4.7K21 Aug

1.1K9 Sep

1.2K11 Sep

1.5K12 Sep

5.2K13 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.58%21 Aug

2.07%9 Sep

2.04%11 Sep

2.53%12 Sep

0.98%13 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.57%.

What the audience does

Likes58.7%172 in total

Reposts12.3%36 in total

Replies1.4%4 in total

Bookmarks27.6%81 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.