Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. is a political scientist specializing in the history of political philosophy, comparative politics, international relations, literature and politics, and American constitutional thought. Since 2002, he has been University Professor at the American Studies Center at Warsaw University and, since 2004, an Instructor in the MA Diplomacy and International Relations program at Norwich University; he holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University and is the author of Aristotle's Best Regime (2003) and The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science (2016).
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