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Economics professor at Columbia University, Jagdish Bhagwati is an expert at trade, WTO and multilateralism. He professes free trade in a multilateral context. He thinks that the current crop of US senators and Congressman are a deplorable disappointment to proponents of multilateralism. In the last few decades Bhagwati has propounded path-breaking theories relating to globalized trade. According to Jagdish, the breakdown ...

Ashley Tellis is possibly the main Indian-American face of the US-India nuclear deal. He believes in Condoleeza’s Rice observation that bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation will be the key in expanding Indo-US relationship. According to Tellis, as the centre of gravity shifts towards Asia and as Asia’s share of the global economy threatens to become 50 per cent by 2025, its imperative ...

The editor of Newsweek International, Fareed Zacharia is well known for esoteric thoughts such as the future of freedom, where he contends that triumphant democracies will need to build independent institutions, disconnect religion from politics and build its image globally. Fareed is famous for his pro-Republican views on Iraq and Afghanistan. But his most important contribution is the manner in which ...

In nonfiction book publishing, 2007 could go down as the year of Chindia. There was a small avalanche of books on the history, changing economics, and investing opportunities in Asia’s two powerhouse societies, India and China. But the two countries are quite different economically, with enterprise in India tending to be more capital-intensive and more reliant on skilled labor than is ...

Another volume tackling Eastern economic developments is Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (Atlantic Monthly Press) by Joe Studwell, founder of the China Economic Quarterly. Li Ka-shing, Robert Kuok, Stanley Ho, and other moguls are among the richest men on the planet. Yet in a region full of such tycoons, why is one so hard-pressed to ...