Arthur Waldron

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Asia Program

Arthur Waldron, Senior Fellow, is the Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Vice President and co-founder of the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Washington, D.C. (www.strategycenter.net), a 501(c)3 research organization. At Penn he has begun a program on strategy; he also directs the Indo-US forum in cooperation with two Indian research groups. Dr. Waldron is the author of three  major books, From War to Nationalism: China’s Turning Point, 1924–1925 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), How The Peace Was Lost (Stanford University Press, 1992) and The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Cambridge University Press, 1990). He has edited, or contributed chapters or introductions to, more than twenty books. His articles have appeared in Foreign AffairsOrbisChina QuarterlyCommentaryWorld Politics, and American Historical Review. Prof. Waldron is also a member of the boards of the Jamestown Foundation and Freedom House. He is currently writing a history of the Chinese civil war 1945-49.

Arthur Waldron
Lauder Professor of International Relations
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania
College Hall 208
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379 USA