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The Peacemakers:
India And The Quest For One World
Historian Manu Bhagavan delves deep into the heart of India’s foreign policy and diplomacy leading up to its struggle for independence and spans an additional ten years. The early chapters are an important reminder of the brutality and violence unleashed by Britain’s colonial rule as India’s leaders asserted their demands for independence, giving further context to the critical Quit India movement that reached a global audience. Bhagavan weaves together key figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, showing how their visions for peace shaped India’s independence and international relations….
Manu Bhagavan
Manu Bhagavan is Professor of History, Human Rights, and Public Policy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center-The City University of New York, where he is also Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.
Norman Cousins:
Peacemaker in the Atomic Age
The book, written by Allen Pietrobon, an Assistant Professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University, argues that, unlike many peace activists during the Cold War, Cousins had “an enormous impact on domestic politics and international relations.” The key to this impact, Pietrobon observes, was Cousins’s role, for 35 years, as editor of the Saturday Review, which he built into the third most popular public affairs magazine in the United States, with a circulation of 650,000. This role enabled him to have a significant impact upon public opinion and, also, to build up a network of connections with prominent individuals, including Adlai Stevenson, Nikita Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, Albert Schweitzer, Norman Thomas, Jawaharlal Nehru, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more.
Allen Pietrobon
Assistant Professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University and Chair of the Global Affairs Department. He specializes in modern American history and U.S. Foreign Policy. He is formerly the Assistant Director of Research at the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University.