Lawrence C. Reardon received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. He wrote A Third Way: The Origins of China's Current Economic Development Strategy (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2020), The Reluctant Dragon: The Impact of Crisis Cycles on Chinese Foreign Economic Policy (University of Washington Press, 2001), and has written on China's foreign economic policy for China Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary China, China Business Review, and The Journal of Shenzhen University. He translated two volumes of key Chinese policy documents concerning China's coastal development strategy (Chinese Law and Government, 1994). He also co-edited the volume The Catholic Church and the Nation-State (Georgetown University Press, 2006). He wrote the chapter on the Catholic Church for the Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism, Volume 2. He completed chapters on the Belt and Road Initiative, the United Front Work Department, China's religious policies, and Pope Francis and China. He wrote a chapter entitled "The Return of Spiraling Tension in US-China Relations" for a book he co-edited for Lexington Press entitled Leveraging Insights on China for Informed Integrated Deterrence. He is a research associate at Harvard University's Fairbank Center, a Luce fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a special researcher at Jinan University. At the University of New Hampshire, he teaches Asian foreign and domestic policy, emphasizing China and courses on international political economy and international relations. He is the coordinator for the Asian studies minor.
