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Harish Chandra Mehta is a university lecturer and historian of the Foreign Relations of the United States.

Journalistic career

He has written for newspapers.[1]

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[2] and plagued by extreme partiality towards Hun Sen.[3]

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.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Search results: Harish Mehta". Outlookindia.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  2. ↑ Osborne, Milton (2015). "Hun Sen's Cambodia". Contemporary Southeast Asia. 37 (1). doi:10.1355/cs37-1f. ProQuest 1686398035.
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ 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.