Edward Friedman
Hawkins Chair of Political Science
University of Wisconsin
Professor Edward Friedman is the Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his MA in East Asian Studies (1961) and his Ph. D. in Political Science (1968) from Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include democratization, Chinese politics, international political economy, evolution, and the comparative study of transitions in Leninist States.
Professor Friedman's publications include National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China (1995); with Barrett L. McCormick, What If China Doesn't Democratize? Implications for War and Peace (2000); and, most recently, "A Comparative Politics of Democratization in China," Journal of Contemporary China (2003). In April 2003, he delivered the keynote address, "Right and Wrong Ways to Question Human Rights Universalism," at Human Rights in the Pacific Rim: Imagining a New Critical Discourse, A One-Day International Conference at the University of San Francisco. Professor Friedman is widely known as an expert on China both at home and abroad.