Peter Hays Gries
Harold J. Newman Chair in U.S.-China Issues
Institute for U.S.-China Issues, The University of Oklahoma
Peter Hays Gries is author of China's New Nationalism, co-editor of State and Society in 21st-Century China, and has written over 20 academic journal articles and book chapters. His work focuses on nationalism, the political psychology of international affairs, and China's domestic politics and foreign policy.
Peter is Director of the Sino-American Security Dialogue (SASD), an institutionalized forum for informal and sustained interaction among the new generation of young Chinese and American security experts. SASD is generously funded by the Ford Foundation and the Institute for US-China Issues.
Peter received a BA in East Asian Studies from Middlebury College, an MA in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mershon Center for Security Studies at Ohio State University, and an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado before coming to OU.