"The Challenges of a Runaway World: The Successes and Failures of Multilateralism"

Nov. 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Stamford, CT – Nayan Chanda is the Director of Publications and Editor of the YaleGlobal Online Magazine, at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. In his presentation, Chanda will discuss the failures and triumphs that countries have with multilateralism. The event will begin at 7:00 P.M. at the New Canaan Library on November 21, 2011. This free program is part of the Great Decisions series.

Nayan Chanda was with the Hong Kong-based magazine Far Eastern Economic Review for nearly 30 years as its editor, editor-at-large and correspondent, before joining Yale. In 1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington; from 1990-1992 he was editor of Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly. He is the author of  Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. Chanda writes a fortnightly column 'Bound Together' in India's Business/World magazine and Singapore Straits Times. Chanda is the recipient of the Shorenstein Award for 2005.  
Refreshments prior to the presentation are courtesy of the New Canaan Library, a co-sponsor of the program.

The Great Decisions programs at the New Canaan Library are generously supported by HSBC Darien Branch.  Think globally. Bank locally.  

Great Decisions, a program of the Foreign Policy Association, is presented by the World Affairs Forum, whose mission is to expand understanding of global affairs and America’s role in the world.  The Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America.  Programs, schedules and membership information are available at www.WorldAffairsForum.org.

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