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Nayan Chanda is a former correspondent and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review

Far Eastern Economic Review

The Far Eastern Economic Review was an English language Asian news magazine started in 1946. It printed its final issue in December 2009. The Hong Kong-based business magazine was originally published weekly...

and co-author of numerous books on Asia

Asia

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n politics, security and foreign policy issues. He is best known for his seminal book, Brother Enemy: The War after the War. He is currently the Director of Publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, or YCSG, is a research center at Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut. It was launched in 2001 in order to 'enrich the debate about globalization on campus and to promote the flow of ideas between Yale and the policy world.'The current director...

, and editor of the YaleGlobal Online, a webzine devoted to exploring globalization.

Chanda graduated with a degree in History

History

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at the prestigious Presidency College, Kolkata

Presidency College, Kolkata

Presidency University, Kolkata, formerly Hindu College and Presidency College, is a unitary, state aided university, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. and one of the premier institutes of learning of liberal arts and sciences in India. In 2002 it was ranked number one by the weekly news magazine...

. He stood first in his class during his post-graduate degree in history from Jadavpur University

Jadavpur University

Jadavpur University , is a premier educational and research institution in India.It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal and comprises two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake...

. Between 1971 and 1974 he continued his studies in International Relations at the Sorbonne

University of Paris

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. In 1974 he was working on his thesis in the Sorbonne on the domestic roots of Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

n foreign policy under Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk regular script was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 until his semi-retirement and voluntary abdication on 7 October 2004 in favor of his son, the current King Norodom Sihamoni...

when he was offered the job of Indochina correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review based out of Saigon. Curious to find out more about the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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, he decided to become a journalist to see history being made. In April 1975, Chanda decided to stay behind after the fall of Saigon

Fall of Saigon

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Chanda reported as the Indochina

Indochina

The Indochinese peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly southwest of China, and east of India. The name has its origins in the French, Indochine, as a combination of the names of "China" and "India", and was adopted when French colonizers in Vietnam began expanding their territory...

Correspondent for the Hong Kong

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-based Far Eastern Economic Review until 1980. In 1980, he was appointed Diplomatic Correspondent. From 1984 until 1989, Chanda was the Washington correspondent of the Review. He was also Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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in Washington in 1989-1990. In the 1990s he was editor, first, of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly and later the Far Eastern Economic Review

Far Eastern Economic Review

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He is a frequent contributor to the opinion page of the International Herald Tribune

International Herald Tribune

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and is a member of the Advisory Council for the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution

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. In 2005 he won the Shorenstein Prize

Shorenstein Prize

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for Journalism

Journalism

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In May 2009 Chanda was the second expert witness called to testify at the trial of Kang Kek Iew in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

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He currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut, and is the Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. His most recent book Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization has been translated in many languages and has helped many to understand the complexity of globalization, and its historic roots.

Selected works

The book has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and French

Selected works

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