Lawrence C. Reardon

Lawrence C. Reardon received his B.A in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University (1979), a Master in International Affairs (1983), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (1991); he has also received diplomas and certificates from the University of Vienna, Peking University, Columbia University’s East Asian Institute, and Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

He was a Luce Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 2001-02, a Committee for Scholarly Communications with the People’s Republic of China fellow (Fulbright) at Peking University from 1984-88, a special researcher at Jinan University (Guangzhou, China) since 1986, and a foreign expert teaching economics at Shenzhen University (Shenzhen SEZ, China) from 1986-88. Currently he is a professor of political science and international affairs, coordinator of Asian studies at the University of New Hampshire, as well as an associate in research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

He has published several monographs on Chinese foreign economic policy. A Third Way: The origins of China’s current economic development strategy (Harvard, 2020) tells the story of the evolution of China’s coastal development strategy in the 1980s. The Reluctant Dragon: The impact of crisis cycles on Chinese foreign economic policy (University of Washington, 2002) analyzes the elite debates concerning China’s development from 1949-1978. He has translated and published two volumes of Chinese foreign economic policy documents in China Law and Government. He has written articles on China's foreign economic policy for China Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary China, China Business Review, and The Journal of Shenzhen University. He co-edited The Vatican and the Nation-State in Comparative Perspective (Georgetown, 2006) and has also written articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries on the Roman Catholic Church and religion in China for The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion.