Yale Appoints Director of Publications for its New Globalization Center

Yale University has announced the appointment of Nayan Chanda to the position of director of publications for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

Chanda is editor-at-large of the Far Eastern Economic Review, one of Asia’s premier business magazines. He first joined the Review in 1974 as Indochina correspondent, based in Saigon. Following the fall of Saigon, he moved to Hong Kong, where the Review has its headquarters. In 1980 Chanda was appointed diplomatic correspondent, and from 1984 to 1989, was the magazine’s Washington correspondent. He spent 1989 to 1990 as Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington and from 1990 to 1992 was editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly. He returned to Hong Kong as deputy editor of the Review in 1992 and in 1996 was named editor.

Phil Revzin, publisher of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has called Chanda “One of the principal architects and public faces of the Review for the past 30 years… his contributions have benefited not only the magazine and its readers but all of us who have had the privilege of working with him.”

Chanda is author of the highly-praised book, “Brother Enemy: the War After the War” (1986), which has been called “a compelling account of the third Indochina war, indispensable for anybody seeking to understand the roots of the regional conflicts between China and Vietnam and the sources of the continuing war between the Vietnamese and Cambodian communists” (Donald Zagoria in Foreign Affairs, Spring 1987). Published in French and Japanese translation, “Brother Enemy” has been broadcast in Vietnamese by BBC radio.

Chanda is co-author of “The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Asia,” edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton (1990), “The Challenge of Reform in Indochina,” edited by Borje Ljunggren (1993) and “China, Japan and India in Southeast Asia,” edited by Chandran Jeshurun (1993), among other books on foreign policy and conflict resolution. A contributing editor of the journal Foreign Policy, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for International Development at Harvard University and serves on the Advisory Council of the Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies.

Chanda will be a featured speaker at “Yale 300 in Asia,” part of the University’s Tercentennial celebration, set for May 5 in Hong Kong. Other speakers on the panel titled “Bridging East and West in the Pacific Century” will be Mike Chinoy of CNN and Helen Siu, Yale professor of anthropology.

In November 2000, Yale announced its decision to create a Center for the Study of Globalization. Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of state and a key architect of U.S. foreign policy under the Clinton administration, will direct the new center, beginning July 2001. The center will serve as a catalyst for research, writing, and teaching on globalization, using Yale faculty and bringing to Yale distinguished scholars and practitioners of international affairs. The Center for the Study of Globalization will be housed in the Davies Mansion, a recently restored Victorian mansion of nearly 20,000 square feet that sits on a hilltop at the north end of the Yale campus.