Andrew J. Nathan   Columbia University

Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. His articles have appeared in World Politics, Daedalus, The China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, Asian Survey, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. He has authored or edited numerous books, including Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, co-edited with Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, and Kavita Philip (2003), China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files, with Bruce Gilley (2002), and The Tiananmen Papers, edited with Perry Link (2001). Nathan was chair of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch, Asia, 1995-2000, and continues to serve on this committee and on the board of Human Rights in China. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Democracy, The China Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary China, and China Information, among others. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.