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 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 publishes on the politics of religion in Asian states (Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2011), co-edited the volume, The Catholic Church and the Nation-State (Georgetown University Press, 2006). He is currently completing two chapter for edited volumes: one on the United Front Work Department, and and a second on the Belt and Road Initiative. He is a research associate at Harvard University's Fairbank Center, was 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 is a professor of political science, and is the coordinator for Asian studies.
