Prof. Bruce M. Russett (March, 2014)
Bruce Russett is Dean Acheson Research Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Yale University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University (2002) and Williams College (2011). Over the course of his more than four decades in the field he has held visiting appointments at Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, North Carolina, the Free University of Brussels, the Richardson Institute in London, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Tel Aviv, and Tokyo University Law School. He served as editor for the Journal of Conflict Resolution for the remarkable term of 1973 through 2009, and each year the best article in JCR comes with an award carrying his name. Russett also served as the president of both the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society (International). In 2009 he was awarded received the Peace Science Society’s Founder’s Medal.
He is the author of more than 25 books, including Grasping the Democratic Peace (1993) and, with John Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (2001; awarded the International Studies Association’s prize for Best Book of the Decade 2000-2009). Russett is also the author of more than 250 scholarly articles, and throughout his career he published path breaking work, including research on inequality and rebellion; voting in international organizations; deterrence; elite opinion and foreign policy; and the democratic peace.
The interview will be posted soon (1 hour).
He is the author of more than 25 books, including Grasping the Democratic Peace (1993) and, with John Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations (2001; awarded the International Studies Association’s prize for Best Book of the Decade 2000-2009). Russett is also the author of more than 250 scholarly articles, and throughout his career he published path breaking work, including research on inequality and rebellion; voting in international organizations; deterrence; elite opinion and foreign policy; and the democratic peace.
The interview will be posted soon (1 hour).