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Harry Harding

University Professor of International Affairs

1957 E Street, NW Suite 503

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-1715
Fax: (202) 994-6090
E-mail: hharding@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University

Expertise:

Chinese domestic politics, Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, international relations of the Asia-Pacific region

Background:

Before his appointment as University Professor, Dr. Harding served as the Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and as Professor of International Affairs and Political Science (1995-2005). He previously was a member of the faculties of Swarthmore College (1970-71) and Stanford University (1971-83), directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1979-80), and was a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94). In 2005-07, he served as Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm headquartered in New York. He remains a Counselor to Eurasia Group and Chair of its China Task Force, and also holds an appointment as a Visiting Fellow in the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society.

Dr. Harding received his B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford. His major publications include The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (co-edited with Francine Frankel, 2004); A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992); Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Debate (co-edited with Yuan Ming, 1989); China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (1987); China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (editor, 1984); and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (1981).

Dr. Harding's first book, Organizing China, was awarded the 1986 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, which honors outstanding books on subjects concerning the Pacific Rim. A subsequent book, A Fragile Relationship, was named an "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice magazine, and received the honorable mention award in the competition for the "Best Book in Government and Political Science" conducted by the Association of American Publishers. In addition, Dr. Harding received the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching from Stanford University in 1975.

Dr. Harding is a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and a member of the Board of Governors of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has previously been a member of the U.S.-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, a member of the Defense Policy Board, and president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

As a University Professor, Dr. Harding offers courses in his areas of expertise: Chinese domestic politics, Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, he teaches on two topics: the expression of political ideas in civic architecture, and the cross-cultural relations between Asia and America.

Courses Taught:

Honr 175 Intercultural Relations: the United States and Asia
Honr 175 Architecture and Politics
IAff 190 U.S.-China Relations
IAff 218 Political Risk Assessment
PSc 175 International Relations of East Asia
PSc 270 Politics of China 1
PSc 272 Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China
PSc 275 International Politics of East Asia

Last update: 10.24.07

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