[2] Previously he served as a correspondent and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and has co-authored numerous books on Southeast Asian affairs and globalisation.
Between 1971 and 1974 he continued his studies in international relations at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, where he was writing a thesis on the domestic roots of Cambodian foreign policy under Norodom Sihanouk.
While he was in the midst of writing his thesis, he was offered a job in 1974 at the Far Eastern Economic Review to serve as its Indochina correspondent based out of Saigon, Vietnam.
[1] He is a frequent contributor to the opinion page of the International Herald Tribune and is a member of the advisory council for the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
His most recent book, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization discusses the complexity of globalisation and its historic roots.