Dear Friend:

We are pleased to share with you that Andrew J Nathan has been named ICAS Fellow (www.icasinc.org/roster.html), effective immediately.

Andy is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of political participation and political culture, and human rights. Andy’s books include Chinese Democracy (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1985); The Tiananmen Papers, co-edited with Perry Link (New York: PublicAffairs, 2001); China’s Search for Security, co-authored with Andrew Scobell (Columbia University Press, 2012); Will China Democratize?, co-edited with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013); and China’s Influence and the Center-Periphery Tug of War in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific, co-edited with Brian C H Fong and Wu Jieh-min (London: Routledge, 2021). He has served at Columbia as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 1991-1995, chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2002-2003, and chair of the Department of Political Science, 2003-2006. Andy is chair of the faculty steering committee of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and chair of the Morningside Institutional Review Board (IRB). Off campus, he is a member of the steering committee of the Asian Barometer Survey and a board member of Human Rights in China. Andy is a former member of the boards of the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and Human Rights Watch.

Andy was a featured Speaker for the ICAS Winter Symposium Veritas (ICAS February 8, 2023 Video) on February 8, 2023.

Thank you.