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About Bruce Gilley
- Bruce Gilley (born 1966) is professor of political science at Portland State University.
- He is a specialist in the comparative politics of China and Asia, a theorist of political legitimacy, and an advocate of viewpoint diversity and academic freedom.
- His article "The Case for Colonialism", published in an advance online edition of Third World Quarterly in 2017, was highly controversial for its thesis and resulted in death threats against the editor causing Gilley to agree to its retraction.
- Fifteen members of the journal's board resigned as a result of the affair.
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