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Selig S. Harrison

Selig Seidenman Harrison (March 19, 1927 – December 30, 2016) was a scholar and journalist, who specialized in South Asia and East Asia. He was the Director of the Asia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was also a member of the Afghanistan Study Group. He wrote five books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia. His last book, ''Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement'' (Princeton University Press), won the 2002 award of the Association of American Publishers for the best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science.

His outspoken, constructive criticisms of administration policies often appeared on op-ed pages of many major newspapers, including ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', the ''International Herald Tribune'', ''The Los Angeles Times'', and ''The Financial Times''. Provided by Wikipedia