Does the Elephant Dance?: Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy About the Author After having served as Canada’s High Commissioner to India and the non-resident Ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan, David M. Malone was also appointed as the President of the International Development Research Center (IDRC) in the year 2008. His other works include The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, (2006) and the more recent The Law And Practice Of The United Nations.