Harish C. Mehta


Harish Chandra Mehta is a university lecturer and historian of the Foreign Relations of the United States.

Journalistic career

He has written for newspapers.

Books

Mehta has written three books on Cambodia: Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia is based on several hours of interviews with Prime Minister Hun Sen, whom the authors have known personally for twenty-one years; an updated edition was published in 2013. It has been criticised by reviewers as being hagiographic and plagued by extreme partiality towards Hun Sen.

Awards

As a historian, Mehta has won the Samuel Flagg Bemis Award in 2008 and 2007 given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.