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Review of Why Leaders Fight

Michael C. Horowitz, Allan C. Stam, and Cali M. Ellis, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 9781107655676

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Carter, J. Review of Why Leaders Fight. Int Polit Rev 5, 35–38 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41312-016-0006-0

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