The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Media and Culture Speakers Series and Imagining Global Asia present

former New York Times foreign and U.N. correspondent

The Press and International Organizations:
The Case of Khmer Rouge and SouthEast Asia

Barbara Crossette was The New York Times bureau chief at the United Nations from 1994 to 2001. She was earlier a Times chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia and a diplomatic reporter in Washington. She is the author of several books on Asia, including "So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas," and a collection of travel essays about colonial resort towns that are still attracting visitors more than a century after their creation, "The Great Hill Stations of Asia." In 2000, she wrote a survey of India and Indian-American relations, "India: Old Civilization in a New World," for the Foreign Policy Association in New York. She is also the author of "India Facing the 21st Century." Ms. Crossette is now a travel essayist and a freelance writer on foreign policy and international affairs. Her articles and essays appear periodically in World Policy Journal, published by The World Policy Institute in New York.

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