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Walter C. Clemens, Jr. (born Cincinnati, April 6, 1933) is a political scientist known for advancing complexity science as an approach to the study of international relations and comparative politics. He is a Professor Emeritus at Boston University and an Associate at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.^[1]H s. Since 2008, he has been a regular contributor to Global Asia, the quarterly journal of the East Asia Foundation.^[2]

Biography

Clemens grew up in

Clemens has also made contributions to the study of arms control in U.S. relations with the USSR, China, and North Korea. As Executive Officer of the White House Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament for International Cooperation Year 1965, he drafted the Committee’s proposal, “3-Year Moratorium urged on Antimissile Missiles.”[5] In the 1980s, Clemens conducted surveys showing that most Americans erroneously believed that their country was protected by an effective missile defense shield.^[6] Clemens treated this as a dangerous illusion.

Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Having participated in the first exchange of U.S. and Soviet graduate students in 1958-59, Clemens became one of the first specialists to study Soviet arms control policies and, later, one the few scholars to anticipate the demise of the Soviet system.^[7] As the Soviet system entered its final years, he wrote Can Russia Change? The USSR Confronts Global Interdependence (1990) and Baltic Independence and Russian Empire (1991). In reviewing Can Russia Change? for Foreign Affairs, John C. Campbell wrote "the main argument for relations of 'complex interdependence' is clear and convincing."^[8] In Baltic Independence, Clemens argued that the Singing Revolution of the three Baltic nations gave a coup de grâce to the Soviet system. The Foreign Affairs review of Baltic Interdependence expressed: "[t]his book, better than any other, tells how the local communist parties tried and failed to adapt to the growing popular demands for national self-determination."^[9] A review in Lituanus described Baltic Interdependence as "the only current scholarly work which succinctly summarizes the troubled histories of the Baltic nations, including the complicated negotiations for independence during the years 1917-1920" ^[10] Later analyzing a decade of post-Soviet development, Clemens wrote The Baltic Transformed: Complexity Theory and European Security (2001).

Scholarship on North and South Korea

Clemens published Getting to Yes in Korea (with a foreword by Gov. Bill Richardson) in 2010, followed by several articles in Global Asia, The New York Times, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The book applies international relations, complexity and negotiation theories to the tensions stemming from North Korea's nuclear program, Asking whether and how the West should negotiate with a brutal dictatorship, Clemens on February 3, 2011 gave the Glasmacher Lecture in Ottawa, Canada, at the Symposium on Conflict Resolution. The lecture title was “Can–Should–Must We Negotiate with Evil?"^[11]

Complexity Science

In 2004, Clemens published the second edition of Dynamics of International Relations (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). The book presents a new approach to the study of international relations and has become an increasingly popular alternative to more traditional international relations course texts.

His most recent work is Complexity Science and World Affairs (State University of New York Press, 2013). ^[12]

Honors, awards and professional leadership

• Research Fellow, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, 2006

• Fulbright-Hayes Research-Lecturing Award, University of Ljubljana, 2005;

• Usage Panel, American Heritage Dictionary, 1982-present

• International Advisory Board, Sakharov Archives, Brandeis University, 2001-2004

• Fellow, Södertörns University College, Stockholm, 1999

• Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer on Arms Control, China, 1999-2000

Partial List of Publications

Books, and edited volumes

• Complexity Science and World Affairs, Foreword by Stuart A. Kauffman (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013)^[13]
• Getting to Yes in Korea, Foreword by Gov. Bill Richardson (Boulder, Co.: Paradigm Publishers, 2010); Korean language edition (Seoul: Hanul, 2010)^[14]
• Ambushed! A Cartoon History of the George W. Bush Administration, with Jim Morin (Boulder, Co.: Paradigm Publishers, 2008)^[15]
• Dynamics of International Relations: Conflict and Mutual Gain in An Era of Global Interdependence. 2d ed. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).^[16]
• Bushed! What Passionate Conservatives Have Done to America and the World, with Jim Morin. (Skaneateles, N.Y.: Outland Books, 2004)

• The Baltic Transformed: Complexity Theory and European Security, Foreword by Jack F. Matlock, Jr. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).^[17]
• America and the World, 1898-2025: Achievements, Failures, Alternative Futures (New York: St. Martin's, 2000)

• Baltic Independence and Russian Empire (New York: St. Martin's, 1991)

• Can Russia Change? The USSR Confronts Global Interdependence (New York: Routledge, 1990 and Routledge Classics edition, 2011)

• The U.S.S.R. and Global Interdependence: Alternative Futures (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1978)

• The Superpowers and Arms Control: From Cold War to Interdependence (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1973)

• The Prospects for Peace, 1973-1977, computer data file and codebook at International Relations Archive, Inter-University Consortium for Political Research, University of Michigan (1973), ICPSR 5803^[18]
• "Die Tschechoslowakei unter Husak," Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Supplement, Das Parlament (Bonn) B24/70 (June 13, 1970)

• The Arms Race and Sino-Soviet Relations (Stanford: The Hoover Institution, 1968)

• Outer Space and Arms Control (Cambridge: The M.I.T. Center for Space Research, 1966)

• Principal investigator, with Lincoln P. Bloomfield and Franklyn Griffiths, Khrushchev and the Arms Race: Soviet Interests in Arms Control and Disarmament, 1954-1964 (Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1966)

• Ed. and Introduction, Toward a Strategy of Peace, Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965)

• Ed. and Introduction, World Perspectives on International Politics (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1965)

• "Soviet Disarmament Policy, 1917-1963: An Annotated Bibliography of Soviet and Western Sources" (Stanford: The Hoover Institution, 1965)

• "Origins of the Soviet Campaign for Disarmament: The Soviet Position on Peace, Security, and Revolution at the Genoa, Moscow, and Lausanne Conferences, 1922-23" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1961)

Scholarly articles

• “Balkans,”:”Baltic States,” “Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of,” “Korean War,” in Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics, ed. Joel Krieger 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)

• “Disarmament, General and Complete (GDD),” “International Theory and Liberal Democracy” “Russia and Peace: History,” “The Russian/Soviet Experience in Arms Control,”and “Third Party Intervention” in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace, ed. Nigel Young. 3 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)

• “Understanding and Coping with Ethnic Conflict and Development Issues in Post-Soviet Eurasia,” in Complexity in World Politics: Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm, ed. Neil E. Harrison (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2006), pp. 73-93.

• “Ethnic Peace, Ethnic Conflict: Complexity Theory on Why the Baltic is Not the Balkans,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 43 (2010): 245-261.

• “How Should Democrats Deal with Dictators?” Global Asia 5, 3 (Fall 2010): 70-81^[19]
• “North Korea’s Quest for Nuclear Weapons: New Historical Evidence,” Journal of East Asian Studies 10, 1 (January-March 2010), pp. 127-154.

• “What Factors Shape Korea’s Future? Forces and Fo¬rtuna versus Ideas” Pacific Focus 24, 2 (August 2009), pp. 187-204.

• “Alternative Futures for North Korea,” Global Asia 4, 2 (Summer 2009), pp. 40-47.^[20]
• “Culture and Symbols as Tools of Resistance,” Journal of Baltic Studies, 40, 2 (June 2009), pp. 169-177.

• “Complexity Theory as a Tool for Understanding and Coping with Ethnic Conflict and Development Issues in Post-Soviet Eurasia,” International Journal of Peace Studies, 7, 2 (Autumn/Winter 2002)^[21]

References