Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at American University, Washington, DC. His books include: Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (2007);The Age of Fear: Power Versus Principle in the War on Terror (2004), and Whose Ideas Matter: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (2009). His current affairs commentaries have appeared in Financial Times, Foreign Affairs (Online); International Herald Tribune, Straits Times, The Nation, Jakarta Post, Canberra Times, Far Eastern Economic Review, Japan Times, and YaleGlobal Online covering such topics as Asian security, the war on terror, and the rise of China and India.