Harish C. Mehta Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. News: Search results: Harish Mehta. Outlookindia.com. 30 November 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101108202400/http://outlookindia.com/peoplehome3.aspx?pid=8100&author=Harish%20Mehta. 8 November 2010. dmy-all.
2. Osborne. Milton. 2015. Hun Sen's Cambodia. Contemporary Southeast Asia. 37. 1. 10.1355/cs37-1f. .
3. McLeod. Mark W.. Sebastian Strangio . (New Haven. CT: PB - Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 322. $37.50.). 2016-06-01. Hun Sen's Cambodia. By. Historian. en. 78. 2. 369–370. 10.1111/hisn.12206. 1540-6563.
4. 10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01024.x . 36 . 2 . Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy in 1967 and 1968* . Diplomatic History . 301–335 . Mehta . Harish C.. 2012 .