Peter Hays Gries is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and co

Peter Hays Gries is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and co-Director of the Sino-American Security Dialogue. He is interested in 1) the political psychology of international relations in general and Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations in particular, and 2) state legitimation in China. He is author of China’s New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy (University of California Press, 2004), and is co-editor (with Stanley Rosen) of State and Society in 21^st Century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation (Routledge 2004). His writings have also appeared in The China Quarterly (forthcoming), The European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming), Political Psychology, The Journal of Contemporary China, International Security, The China Journal, and World Affairs. His work focuses on nationalism, the political psychology of international relations, and China's domestic politics and foreign affairs.