Harry Harding (political scientist)

Harry Harding (1946—) is an American political scientist specializing in Chinese politics and foreign affairs. He is the founding dean of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, and had previously served as dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs. Harding has advised several US Presidents on developments in the PRC; before the Tiananmen Square demonstrations he was brought to Camp David for informal discussions with the first Bush administration. He has written several books, including the seminal China's Second Revolution, regularly cited by Chinese officials as influencing their present five-year plan. Harding has a Chinese name: 何汉理 (Pinyin: Hé Hànlǐ).

Biography

Dr. Harding was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946. He received his B.A. in public and international affairs in 1967 from Princeton University, and his M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1974) in political science from Stanford University.

Dr. Harding served on the political science faculties of Swarthmore College (1970-71) and Stanford University (1971-83) and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He then became Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94), and, later, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, a post he held for more than 10 years (January 1995 – June 30, 2005). Dr. Harding is widely credited for making the Elliott School an internationally competitive graduate program. Upon his retirement from that post, Harding accepted a University Professorship at the School. On August 1, 2005, Harding joined Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy, as the firm's Director of Research and Analysis. He is currently a Senior Advisor at the firm.

In 2007, he returned to Elliott School of International Affairs as University Professor of International Affairs at the Sigur Center. He left the Elliott School effective July 1, 2009 to become the founding dean of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.^[1]

Selected bibliography

• Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (Stanford University Press, 1981), ISBN 0-8047-1080-5
• China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (Yale University Press, 1984), ISBN 0-300-03207-2 (ed.)
• China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (Brookings Institution, 1987), ISBN 0-8157-3462-X
• China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension (University Press of America, 1988), ISBN 0-8191-6591-3
• Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade (SR Books, 1989), ISBN 0-8420-2333-X (ed. with Yuan Ming)
• A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (Brookings Institution, 1992), ISBN 0-8157-3466-2
• The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (Columbia University Press, 2004), ISBN 0-231-13236-0 (ed. with Francine R. Frankel)

References

External links

• Professor Harding's home page at George Washington University
• Video of an April 2007 talk by Harry Harding
• Video of a February 2008 talk by Harry Harding on history, memory, and China's foreign relations