Bruce Gilley Quotes

Bruce Gilley is a professor of political science at Portland State University. His article "The Case for Colonialism", published in an advance online edition of Third World Quarterly in 2017, was highly controversial for its thesis. The outrage culminated in threats of violence which caused Gilley to agree to its retraction. Fifteen members of the journal's board resigned as a result of Gilley's article.



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“At least in the initial phases, legitimacy will be demonstrated not by the holding of a plebiscite or by the support of organized and broadly representative groups but simply by the ability of the intervening state to win compliance from key actors and get the job done.”

Source: The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics, Page 29 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352039835_The_Case_for_Colonialism_A_Response_to_My_Critics The case for colonialism, Gilley, 2017

“One main challenge of this research is to properly enumerate the things that matter and then to assign them weights, weights that presumably varied with time and place.”

Source: The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics, Page 17-18 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352039835_The_Case_for_Colonialism_A_Response_to_My_Critics The case for colonialism, Gilley, 2017

“Eminent scholars repeatedly make the logically contradictory claim that colonialism was both too disruptive and not disruptive enough.”

Source: The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics, Page 5 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352039835_The_Case_for_Colonialism_A_Response_to_My_Critics The case for colonialism, Gilley, 2017

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