Globalization & Asia:
Present at the Creation
An illustrated lecture by Nayan Chanda
IMU Oak Room, February 28, 5:30-6:30 pm
Not long ago supporters and
critics of globalization saw it as a synonym for Americanization. Its symbols
were Golden Arches of McDonald’s, Nike and Starbucks. Now the strongest
criticism of globalization comes from the US and Europe. Asian countries,
especially China and India, are seen as the winners of globalization. The
rise of these countries is uncontestably linked to globalization but from a
historical perspective it is not so surprising. Indeed the process of
globalization is millennia old and it began on the Asian continent. After
two centuries of hiatus, Asia is back again as a major driver of the
globalization process.
Since mid-2001, Nayan Chanda
has been Director of Publications of the Yale Center for the Study of
Globalization and editor of YaleGlobal Online (www.yaleglobal.yale.edu). For nearly thirty years, Chanda was diplomatic
correspondent and subsequently editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review.
In 1989-90 he was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, and from 1990-1992 was editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly.
Chanda is the author of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers
and Warriors Shaped Globalization (Yale University Press, 2007) which was
translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, and
Portuguese, and Brother Enemy: The War after the War (Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1986) which was translated into French, Japanese and Khmer.
Co-hosted by: Central
Eurasian Studies, East Asian Studies Center, Pan Asia Institute, Dhar India
Studies Program, Center for the Study of Global Change, and the Inner Asian and
Uralic National Resource Center
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