2011 Commencement Honorary Degrees include Bruce Russett '56 ...

Williams College provides a thorough review of Commencement.

I take the liberty of highlighting Bruce Russet '56 and the beginning of citation recognizing him for his contributions.

Proud son of North Adams, you have used your education at Williams, Cambridge, and Yale to become one of the most influential scholars of international politics. Pursuing knowledge both for its own sake and to help build a better world, you have sought to answer one of the most important questions of our age: What factors reduce armed conflict between states? You have done this in more than two dozen books, more than two hundred articles, and in thirty-six years of editing the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Your 1993 book, Grasping the Democratic Peace, showed that democracies almost never warred against each other. 


Here is a complete listing of those honored:

Honorary Degree Citations

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  Honorary Degree recipients with President Adam Falk (photos by Roman Iwasiwka)
  Marina Abramovic, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Ann Bancroft, Doctor of Science
• Cory A. Booker, Doctor of Laws
• Ken Burns, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Bruce Russett ’56, Doctor of Letters
• Margarito “Gary” B. Teves (CDE ’68), Doctor of Laws