Nayan Chanda (Photo, as it appears on web site www.aya.yale.edu)

Nayan Chanda, former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, received the 2005 Shorenstein Award for Journalism in a ceremony at the Shorenstein Center of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University last week.

Currently, Chanda is the editor of YaleGlobal Online and the director of publications for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

He reported for the Far Eastern Economic Review for 22 years before becoming the magazine’s editor from 1996 to 2000. Chanda co-authored numerous books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy issues and is best known for his seminal book, ‘Brother Enemy: The War after the War,’ on the fate of South Vietnam and Cambodia when they were taken over by Communist regimes in 1975.

He recently co-edited a collection of essays with former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, entitled ‘The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11.’

The biennial Shorenstein Award, presented jointly by the Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies at Stanford University and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard, honors a journalist for distinguished writing as well as for the particular way it has helped Americans understand the complexities of Asia.