Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period

Rabindrinath Tagore (1861–1941) and Amartya Sen (1933–) defend a distinctive form of foreign policy internationalism in their writings. Instead of increasing the economic and military power of democratic states relative to their authoritarian competitors, Tagore and Sen focus on the need to diminish the capacity for violence in all states, regardless of regime type. In Sen’s view, a program of nuclear disarmament, a coordinated reduction in global military spending, and a coordinated reduction i