Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri

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Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri PhD, DLitt, FRAS (born 1935) is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science of the University Grants Commission, India, and a Fellow in International Relations at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK. He is one of the most prominent living scholars in International Relations, and South Asian Studies.

Rai Chowdhuri has taught at several Universities in India and abroad, including St John's College at Oxford, London School of Economics, Calcutta University and Rabindra Bharati University. He was also attached to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Rai Chowdhuri has, for long time, been India's senior diplomat, and has been recognised as one of the most foremost scholars of India. He has served as an Adviser to the Ministries of Defence and External Affairs of the Government of India and has played a role in India's defence and foreign policy making. Indian foreign secretary the late T. N. Kaul offered him with an Ambassadorial assignment to the Republic of China in the 1990s.

A columnist at Columbia University's Project Syndicate and the Asia Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles, he has lectured widely all over the world, and his works have been published and translated into different languages in more than a hundred countries.

He currently resides in Calcutta, India and London, UK.

[edit] Selected Books

  • Nuclear Politics: Towards A Safer World
  • Leftism In India 1917–1947
  • India and Nuclear Disarmament
  • Peacekeeping By The United Nations In Civil Wars
  • Games Nations Play: The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
  • The Turbulent Times: Reflections On The New World Order
  • The Strategy For Peace In A Nuclear World
  • The Strategy For Peace In Twenty First Century World
  • Toward Peace and Stability in South Asia
  • Nuclear Politics: Toward A Safer World New Edition

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