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James W. Pfister
Any day in the news we are likely to hear about President Joe Biden imposing sanctions on China or Russia. We complain about internal matters in those nations. The first foreign leader invited to the White House was the Japanese leader, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, to deal with the U.S.-Japanese alliance against China, perhaps our most important alliance. (Walter Russell Mead, The Wall Street Journal, April 20.)
From Biden’s perspective, the structure of the world order seems to be polarity among the Great Powers: NATO and the United States against Russia in Europe, the Quad (Japan, Australia, India and the United States) against China in the Indo-Pacific. Alliance aggregation against China and Russia seems to be the strategy. (“Alliance aggregation” was my professor J. David Singer’s concept in his Correlates of War Project at the University of Michigan).
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Scott Gates as Director of the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) in 2009. Photo: Marit Moe-Pryce / PRIO
‘Strong critical theory doesn’t play a big role in peace science anymore, or even in peace studies’, states American political scientist Scott Gates in this conversation with his long-term collaborator Nils Petter Gleditsch. Scott calls for more and better recording of data disaggregated in time and space; more work that takes advantage of quasi-experimental designs and other methods through which we can better ascertain causal inference; and further use of data from social media to better appreciate such phenomena as the relationship between social media use and protest activities.