My guest today is Walter C. Clemens, JR.
Walter C. Clemens, JR. is Associate, Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University. His many books include America and the World 1898 – 2025: Achievements, Failures, Alternative Futures; and more recently, The Republican Virus in the Body Politic – How to Reboot America. He is also the author of numerous articles and editorials.
Professor Clemens is an American political scientist best known for advancing complexity science as an approach to the study of international relations and comparative politics. He has been active in the analysis of complexity science, arms control and disarmament, and U.S. relations with communist and post-communist countries.
Associate, Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 1963--; faculty, Boston University, 1966-2012; MIT, 1963-66; U of Calif., Santa Barbara, 1961-63; Iolani School, Honolulu, 1960-61. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1961; M.A., Columbia 1957; A.B., Magna Cum Laude, Notre Dame, 1955 Research at Moscow State University, 1958-59, and U of Vienna, 1952-53.
Links for today’s episode:
Walter C. Clemens, JR. detailed résumé http://www.bu.edu/polisci/people/faculty/clemens/
Also in Wikipedia
Walter’s review page on The New York Journal of Books
Mandy’s review page on The New York Journal of Books
The Republican Virus in the Body Politic: How to Reboot America – Walter C. Clemens, JR. Bookshop.org
The Republican Virus in the Body Politic: How to Reboot America – Walter C. Clemens, JR. – Amazon
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