Muchkund Dubey is one of Indias best-known diplomats and public intellectuals. For many decades he played a key role in the making of India’s foreign policy and in shaping the United Nations programmes for developing countries. This volume celebrates Muchkund Dubey’s life-long endeavour to build a just world through purposive action in the form of policy and scholarship.
In discussing the key components of building a just world, in this volume, contributors from across the world address global, national, regional as well as grass-roots concerns. They make strong pleas for changes in the global trading and financial systems, propose alternative economic models for developing countries, and reflect on the impact of the emergence of China and India in global politics.
The chapters also discuss ways to promote disarmament in general and nuclear disarmament in particular, voice their concerns on the impasse over climate change negotiations and the recurrent hunt for natural resources in developing countries by forces of global hegemony, besides examining key issues concerning social development.
The interviews with Muchkund Dubey provide readers an insight into his life and career. The Foreword by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former UN Secretary General, is a fitting tribute significant to this book.
This book will be useful for national and global policy makers as well as students and scholars of international relations, strategic studies and political science.
Manoranjan Mohanty, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi and former Professor, University of Delhi. Vinod C. Khanna, Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies and former Ambassador. Biswajit Dhar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Director-General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, both in New Delhi.
Foreword by Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali For a New Agenda for Peace and Democratisation of World Order Boutros Boutros-Ghali List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations A New Discourse for a Just World An Introduction Manoranjan Mohanty, Vinod C. Khanna and Biswajit Dhar Part 1: Just World Order 1. Building a More Just World Order An Introduction Chandra Hardy 2. International Relations, Normative Theory and Practice Anuradha M. Chenoy 3. The South in the World Arena A Third World Organisation, the Missing Link Branislav Gosovic 4. Origins and Evolving Ideas of the Trade and Development Report Rubens Ricupero 5. Globalisation, Labour Standards and Economic Development An Introduction Ajit Singh and Ann Zammit 6. Hunt for Natural Resources The Long View Amit Bhaduri 7. Rethinking Macroeconomic Policies for Development Deepak Nayyar 8. The Multilateral Trading System at Risk Biswajit Dhar 9. The Political Economy of the Asian Century Rehman Sobhan 10. India, China and the Emerging Process of Building a Just World Manoranjan Mohanty 11. A Realistic Foreign Policy for an Emerging India Some Thoughts with Special Reference to Sino-Indian Relations Vinod C. Khanna Part 2: Peace, Security and Climate Change 12. Turning Guns into Butter Moving from Armament to Development Douglas Roche 13. Why Nuclear Disarmament is Important to India Shyam Saran 14. Engaging with Kashmir Kamal Mitra Chenoy 15. Climate Talks in Crisis A Test for Multilateralism Praful Bidwai Part 3: Social Sector 16. The State of Children in Africa and What must be Done Dharam Ghai 17. Thirty Years of the World Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement The Gulf between Promise and Performance Hari Mohan Mathur 18. Private Sector Participation in Public Health System Flawed Assumptions, Disastrous Outcomes K. B. Saxena 19. Regional and Social Disparities in Education in India T. Haque 20. Poverty in India Agricultural Security the Answer Pushpa M. Bhargava Part 4: The Movement for a Just World Goes On With Muchkund Dubey: Interview 1 With Muchkund Dubey: Interview 2
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