Harish C. Mehta
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Harish Chandra Mehta{{Cite web |title=Harish C. Mehta |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0udHEhsAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=scholar.google.com}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Rising Asia Journal |url=https://www.rajraf.org/#editorial-board |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=www.rajraf.org}}
Journalistic career
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{{Cite journal|last=Osborne|first=Milton|year=2015|title=Hun Sen's Cambodia|journal=Contemporary Southeast Asia|volume=37|issue=1|doi=10.1355/cs37-1f|id={{ProQuest|1686398035}}}} and plagued by extreme partiality towards Hun Sen.{{Cite journal|last=McLeod|first=Mark W.|last2=Sebastian Strangio . (New Haven|first2=CT: PB - Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 322. $37.50.)|date=2016-06-01|title=Hun Sen's Cambodia. By|journal=Historian|language=en|volume=78|issue=2|pages=369–370|doi=10.1111/hisn.12206|issn=1540-6563}}
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.{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01024.x | volume=36 | issue=2 | title=Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy in 1967 and 1968* | journal=Diplomatic History | pages=301–335 | last1 = Mehta | first1 = Harish C.| year=2012 }}
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