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'''Nayan Chanda''' (born 1946 in [[India]]) is the founder and editor-in-chief of [[YaleGlobal Online]], an online magazine that publishes articles about [[globalisation]].<ref name=brookings>{{cite web|title=Nayan Chanda: Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies|url=http://www.brookings.edu/experts/chandan|work=Experts|date=30 November 2001 |publisher=[[Brookings Institution]]|access-date=26 March 2014}}</ref> The magazine launched in 2001. Control of the magazine was transferred in 2013 from the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization to the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/|title=The MacMillan Center|website=The MacMillan Center}}</ref>

Previously he served as a correspondent and editor of the ''[[Far Eastern Economic Review]]'' and has co-authored numerous books on Southeast Asian affairs and globalisation. He is best known for his 1986 book ''Brother Enemy: The War After the War'', which details the events leading up to the outbreak of the [[Cambodian–Vietnamese War]] (also known as the "Third Indochina War") in the context of the [[Cold War]] that had divided the world.<ref>{{cite book|title=''Brother Enemy: The War After the War''|isbn=0151144206|last1=Chanda|first1=Nayan|year=1986|publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich }}</ref>

==Education==
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Chanda graduated from [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]] in [[Calcutta]] with a degree in history. He stood first in his class during his Master of Arts degree in history from [[Jadavpur University]]. Between 1971 and 1974 he continued his studies in international relations at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] in Paris, France, where he was writing a thesis on the domestic roots of Cambodian foreign policy under [[Norodom Sihanouk]].

==Career==
While he was in the midst of writing his thesis, he was offered a job in 1974 at the ''Far Eastern Economic Review'' to serve as its [[Indochina]] correspondent based out of [[Saigon]], Vietnam. Curious to find out more about the [[Vietnam War]], he decided to become a journalist to see history being made. In April 1975, Chanda decided to remain as a journalist even after the [[fall of Saigon]].{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Chanda reported as the [[Indochina]] Correspondent for the Hong Kong-based ''Far Eastern Economic Review'' until 1980. In 1980, he was appointed Diplomatic Correspondent. From 1984 until 1989, Chanda was the Washington, D.C., correspondent of the ''Review''. He was also senior fellow at the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]] in Washington, D.C., from 1989 to 1990. In the 1990s he was editor of the ''[[Asian Wall Street Journal]] Weekly'' and later for the ''Far Eastern Economic Review''.<ref name=brookings/>

He is a frequent contributor to the opinion page of the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]'' and is a member of the advisory council for the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the [[Brookings Institution]]. In 2005 he won the [[Shorenstein Prize]] for Journalism.

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]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Row erupts over new KR expert | url=http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009052626055/National-news/Row-erupts-over-new-KR-expert.html | publisher= Phnom Penh Post | access-date=26 May 2009}}</ref>

He used to reside in [[New Haven]], [[Connecticut]], and was the director of publications and the editor of ''YaleGlobal Online'' at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. His most recent book, ''Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization'' discusses the complexity of globalisation and its historic roots.<ref name=grimes>{{cite news|last=Grimes|first=William|title=The Rise of Globalization, a Story of Human Desires|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/books/30grimes.html|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|date=30 May 2007}}</ref><ref name=bound>{{cite book|title=''Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization''|isbn=978-0300112016|last1=Chanda|first1=Nayan|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press }}</ref> He was also a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

He is now based in [[New Delhi]], [[India]] and is an associate professor of international studies at [[Ashoka University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashoka.edu.in/academics/faculty/|title = Ashoka University}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* {{Cite book | author=Nayan Chanda | title=Brother Enemy: The War After the War | publisher=Harcourt | year=1986 | isbn=0-15-114420-6}}
* {{Cite book| editor=Nayan Chanda | title=The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11| publisher=Simon and Schuster| location=New York, NY| year=2002| isbn=0-465-08356-0| display-authors=etal| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/ageofterrorameri00talb}}
* {{Cite book | author=Nayan Chanda | title=Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Warriors and Adventurers Shaped Globalization | publisher=Yale University Press | location=New Haven, CT | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-300-11201-6 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/boundtogetherhow00chan }}
* The book has been translated into Chinese, Italian, [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], Japanese, [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and French<ref>{{Cite book | author=Nayan Chanda | title=Au commencement était la mondialisation : La grande saga des aventuriers, missionnaires, soldats et marchands (CNRS Editions)| year=2007 |language=French| isbn=978-2-271-06961-0}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060426235830/http://www.france.com.hk/mmm/fchk/index.jsp?id=65&menuitem=5&red=20 "My first impression of Paris"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140814225026/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51776-2005Feb24.html Review of Pol Pot : Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short] – ''Washington Post''
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/opinion/11chanda.html "Crouching Tiger Swimming Dragon"] – ''New York Times'' op-ed
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060909105335/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/jan-june05/vietnam_6-21.html Appearance on PBS ''Newshour'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051231062200/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/essay.jsp Coming Together:Globalization means reconnecting the human community]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051123175255/http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/globalizationPART1-1/Presentation_Files/index.html Globalization in the Mirror of History]

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