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Minxin Pei

Adjunct Senior Associate
China Program

Minxin Pei is an adjunct senior associate in the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and Roberts Fellow, and the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College.

His research focuses on democratization in developing countries, economic reform and governance in China, and U.S.-China relations. He is the author of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994) and China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006). Pei’s research has been published in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Modern China, China Quarterly, Journal of Democracy and many edited books. Pei is a frequent commentator on BBC World News, Voice of America, and National Public Radio; his op-eds have appeared in the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek International, and International Herald Tribune, and other major newspapers. Pei received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Selected Publications: China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006); “China’s Governance Crisis,” Foreign Affairs (September- October 2002); “Re-balancing United States–China Relations,” Carnegie Policy Brief No. 13 (2002); “Future Shock: The WTO and Political Change in China,” Carnegie Policy Brief No. 3 (2001); From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 1994)

Areas of Expertise

Pei is an expert in China, Taiwan, East Asia, and democracy.

Education

B.A., Shanghai International Studies University; M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Languages

Mandarin Chinese