Harish C. Mehta

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Harish Chandra Mehta [1] is a university lecturer and historian of the Foreign Relations of the United States. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Rising Asia Journal [2] .

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Journalistic career

He has written for newspapers. [3]

Books

Mehta has written three books on Cambodia: Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia (co-author Julie Mehta) is based on several hours of interviews with Prime Minister Hun Sen, whom the authors have known personally for twenty-one years; an updated edition was published in 2013. It has been criticised by reviewers as being hagiographic [4] and plagued by extreme partiality towards Hun Sen. [5]

Awards

As a historian, Mehta has won the Samuel Flagg Bemis Award in 2008 and 2007 given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Harish C. Mehta". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Rising Asia Journal". www.rajraf.org. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "Search results: Harish Mehta". Outlookindia.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  4. ↑ Osborne, Milton (2015). "Hun Sen's Cambodia". Contemporary Southeast Asia. 37 (1). doi:10.1355/cs37-1f. ProQuest   1686398035.
  5. ↑ McLeod, Mark W.; Sebastian Strangio . (New Haven, CT: PB - Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 322. $37.50.) (1 June 2016). "Hun Sen's Cambodia. By". Historian. 78 (2): 369–370. doi:10.1111/hisn.12206. ISSN   1540-6563.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Mehta, Harish C. (2012). "Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy in 1967 and 1968*". Diplomatic History. 36 (2): 301–335. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01024.x.
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