POLITICAL TERRORISM AND THE U.S. EMPIRE

POLITICAL TERRORISM AND THE U.S. EMPIRE

Achin Vanaik
Co-recipient of the International Peace Bureau's Sean McBride International Peace Prize for 2000.
POLITICAL TERRORISM AND THE U.S. EMPIRE
FEB. 24
3:30-5:00 PM
DUHME LIVING ROOM
Achin Vanaik is a retired Professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the
University of Delhi. His books span a wide range of issues, including Indian politics, left-wing
politics, terrorism, foreign policy and nuclear disarmament. They include The Painful Transition:
Bourgeois Democracy in India and The Furies of Indian Communalism both published by
Verso, (with Praful Bidwai) South Asia on a Short Fuse (Oxford University Press) and India in a
Changing World (Orient Longman). He was the series editor for the recent ICSSR Research and
Explorations in Political Science brought out by OUP India. His most recent collection of essays
on nuclear India is forthcoming with Orient Blackswan. His articles have appeared in New Left
Review, Economic and Political Weekly and numerous other journals and newspapers. He has
also been active in a range of social movements and policy organisations including Coalition
for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), Greenpeace India and the Transnational Institute.
This event is made possible through support from: Purdue History Department, Purdue Political Science Department, and the Purdue American Studies Program.
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