Aspen India invites you to an interaction with Mr James Mann, author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Mr. Mann is spending two months as the Avantha Senior Fellow at Aspen India this summer and will provide an overview of American foreign under President Barack Obama. Who are the key people and what are the main ideas in Obama's foreign policy? How does Obama's approach to the world differ from that of previous Democrats like Bill Clinton? To what extent does he represent a change from George W. Bush? For that matter, how is Obama's current policy different from when he first took office in 2009?
This session will be Chaired by Mr Sanjay Budhia, Managing Director of Patton International Limited and moderated by Prof Sumantra Bose, Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Participation is restricted and will be by prior registration only. Registration begins at 4.45 pm at Bengal Club.
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James Mann – Author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Avantha Senior Fellow at Aspen India
James Mann is a Washington-based author who has written a series of award-winning books about American foreign policy and about China. He is a former newspaper reporter, foreign correspondent and columnist who wrote for more than twenty years for the Los Angeles Times. His work was awarded the Edward Weintal Prize in 1999 for distinguished career-long coverage of foreign policy. He is now an author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Mann’s best-known work is Rise of the Vulcans: A History of Bush’s War Cabinet. Published in 2004, the book became a New York Times best-seller. Another of Mann’s books is The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, which re-examines the role Ronald Reagan played in the end of the Cold War. The book won the 2010 Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union of the United States. His latest book is The Obamians: The Struggle Inside The White House to Redefine American Power (2012) Mann, a former Beijing correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, has also written three books about America’s relationship with China. The first, Beijing Jeep, is the story of a single American company and its frustrations starting to do business in China. Fortune magazine book placed the book on its list of 75 all-time greatest books for business executives to read. The second, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, From Nixon to Clinton, narrates the history of America’s diplomacy with China, starting in the late 1960s. The book won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein award for best book of the year (2000). The third book, The China Fantasy, is a critique of the notion that trade will lead to democracy in China. It was listed by The Washington Post’s Book World as one of the best books of the year (2007). Mann graduated from Harvard College and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Sanjay Budhia – Managing Director, Patton International Limited
Sanjay Budhia is Managing Director of PATTON Group. Patton is a government recognized manufacturing export house and star exporter having multi locational units. The group is a consecutive winner of Productivity Awards, FIE Award and recipient of National Awards both from the President and the Prime Minister of India for excellence in exports. Mr Budhia is currently Chairman of CII National Committee on Exports & Imports and National Council Member of All India Management Association. He is the Honorary Consul for the Government of Malaysia. He has been Past President of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Past Chairman of CII (Eastern Region). A Board Member of YPO/WPO for Kolkata and of AIESEC, Kolkata, Mr Budhia is also a Founding Board Member of United Way, Kolkata. He is known not only for his business skills but also for his active patronage of the Arts including support for Dover Lane Music Conference and Calcutta Youth Choir.
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Sumantra Bose – Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Sumantra Bose joined LSE in 1999 as The Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow and since 2006 has held a Chair in International and Comparative Politics. Bose is the author of six books. His new book, Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy, is published globally by Harvard University Press in September 2013, and simultaneously in the Indian subcontinent by Picador India, Delhi. His other recent books are Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (Harvard University Press, 2007), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard University Press, 2003), and Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2002). He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations, the UK's Department for International Development, and the House of Commons' foreign affairs committee. He contributes regularly to major international media including the BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN. Born and raised in Kolkata, Bose went on to graduate with highest honors from Amherst College, Massachusetts in 1992, and received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, New York, in 1998.
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