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     Edward Friedman


Title: Professor
Office: 223 North Hall
Office Hours: https://kb.wisc.edu/polisci/page.php?id=28163
Phone: 608.263.2272
Has Voicemail: No
E-Mail: friedman@polisci.wisc.edu
Keywords: China, Democratization, Globalization, Human Rights, Political Economy, Postcommunism, Revolution


His teaching and research interests include democratization, Chinese foreign policy, international political economy, revolution, and the comparative study of transitions in Leninist States. His most recent books are Chinese Village, Socialist State (1991), The Politics of Democratization: Generalizing the East Asian Experience (1994), National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China (1995), and What if China doesn't democratize? Implications for war and peace (2001), China's Rise, Taiwan's Dilemmas and International Peace (Routledge, 2005), Asia's Giants: Comparing India and China (MacMillan, 2005), Revolution, Resistance and Reform in Village China (Yale, 2005), Regional Cooperation and its enemies in Asia (Routledge, 2006), Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems (Routledge, 2008).
 


Recent Publications

Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, and Stacy Mosher, editors English language edition of Yang Jisheng, Tombstone; The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) published in Chinese in 2008.    
Edward Friedman. "Power Transition Theory" in Yee, ed. China's Peaceful Development. Routledge, 2010.   
Edward Friedman: “China: A Threat to or Threatened by Democracy?", Dissent, Winter 2009, pp. 7-12.   
Edward Friedman, "Why the Ruling Party in China Won't Lose." in Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems. Routledge, 2008.   
Edward Friedman, "How Economic Superpower China Could Transform Africa" in Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2008.
  
Edward Friedman "Raising Sheep on Wolf Milk: The Politics and Dangers of Misremembering the Past in China." Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, June-Sept. 2008, pp. 339-410.   
Edward Friedman "After the Second Wave of Democratization." Taiwan Journal of Democracy 4.1, pp. 155-161   
Edward Friedman "Where is Chinese Nationalism? The Political Geography of a Moving Project." Nations and Nationalism. 2008   
 

Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013

312 - Politics of World Economy

Instructors: Edward Friedman      Field: International Relations
Section Number: 001