Charles Horner (born April 8, 1943) is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Associate Director of the U.S. Information Agency during the administrations of President Ronald Reagan, and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.[1] He is married to former government official and businesswoman, Constance Horner.
He was adjunct professor in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and also an associate of its Landegger Program in International Business.
Horner is an author of Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Volume I: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (2009).
[4] "Explicitly miming Joseph Levenson's trilogy on the roots and meaning of the 1949 revolution," writes the Journal of Asian Studies review, "this book explores the origins and nature of the 1978 reforms and their potential consequences for the world," and brings historical precedents and comparisons to bear."
Naval War College Review, commended Volume II: Grandeur and Peril in the Next World Order (2015) to "general readers in search of intellectually stimulating but accessible material, to teachers of survey courses at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level, and to specialists seeking insights into their own studies of Chinese history."