Clifford Angell Bates Jr.
Clifford Angell Bates Jr. is a university professor in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University in Poland and an instructor in the MA Diplomacy and International Relations program at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. Bates holds a PhD in political science from Northern Illinois University. He is the author of “Aristotle's Best Regime” and “The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science.”
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