About me

Aarie Glas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. In Spring and Summer 2025, he is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI) and a British Academy Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also co-chairs the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Interpretive Methodologies and Methods group. Aarie studies governance and diplomacy in international organizations, particularly in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and works with and writes on interpretive methods and social theory.

Aarie has published two books: Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America(Oxford University Press, 2020) and, with Steven Bernstein and Marion Laurence, Norms, Practices, and Social Change in Global Politics (Cambridge University Press Elements in International Relations series, 2025). His research has also been published in the European Journal of International Relations (2017 & 2023), Global Studies Quarterly (2024), International Affairs (2018 & 2020), Journal of Global Security Studies (2018 & 2022), Pacific Affairs (2024), PS: Political Science and Politics (2020, 2021, & 2023), and other outlets and edited volumes