Harry Harding (born 1946) is an American political scientist specializing in Chinese politics and foreign affairs. He was the founding dean of the
Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the
University of Virginia
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, and had previously served as dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Harding has advised several
US President
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s on developments in the
PRC; before the
Tiananmen Square demonstrations he was brought to
Camp David
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for informal discussions with the first Bush administration. He has written several books, including ''China's Second Revolution'' and ''A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972.'' Harding has a Chinese name:
何汉理 (
Pinyin
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: Hé Hànlǐ).
Biography
Dr. Harding was born in
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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in 1946. He received his
B.A. in public and international affairs in 1967 from
Princeton University
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, and his
M.A.
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(1969) and
Ph.D. (1974) in political science from
Stanford University
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.
Dr. Harding served on the political science faculties of
Swarthmore College
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(1970–71) and Stanford University (1971–83) and was a National Fellow at the
Hoover Institution
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. He then became Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the
Brookings Institution
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(1983–94), and, later, Dean of the
Elliott School of International Affairs at
George Washington University
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, 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
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History
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, 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
Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the
University of Virginia
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.
When Harding retired from the deanship of the Batten School in 2014, he was named a University Professor at U.Va. In January 2015, he assumed a concurrent appointment as Visiting Professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Since leaving that position in January 2018, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and
National Chengchi University
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in Taiwan, where he was appointed a Yushan Scholar by the Ministry of Education.
Selected bibliography
*''Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976'' (
Stanford University Press
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, 1981),
*''China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s'' (
Yale University Press
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, Yale Univers ...
, 1984), (ed.)
*''China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao'' (
Brookings Institution
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, 1987),
*''China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension'' (
University Press of America
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, 1988),
*''Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Decade'' (SR Books, 1989), (ed. with
Yuan Ming
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**Renminbi, the current currency used in mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan
** New Taiwan dollar, the current c ...
)
*''A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972'' (Brookings Institution, 1992),
*''The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know'' (
Columbia University Press
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, 2004), (ed. with
Francine R. Frankel)
References
External links
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1946 births
Living people
Elliott School of International Affairs faculty
American political scientists
George Washington University faculty
National Bureau of Asian Research