CSAS Spring Symposium
Wednesday, April 10 Schedule
Hamilton Library, Room 301

Vijay Prashad, Historian, Journalist

Bio: Vijay is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (2022), written with Noam Chomsky. Vijay is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He also appeared in the films Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).
 

Abstract: For the past decade, the United States has imposed a set of policies to ensure the continuation of its leading role in the Asian region. These policies are largely – but not exclusively – directed toward China. One feature of these policies is the Indo-Pacific Strategy, which has drawn South Asia into the New Cold War. The countries of South Asia, which have been unable to forge any serious integration for historical reasons, are now less likely to advance a South Asian regional project in the midst of this New Cold War.

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