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Forbidden fruit : counterfactuals and international relations /

Could World War I have been averted if Franz Ferdinand and his wife hadn't been murdered by Serbian nationalists in 1914? What if Ronald Reagan had been killed by Hinckley's bullet? Would the Cold War have ended as it did? In Forbidden Fruit, Richard Ned Lebow develops protocols for conduc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lebow, Richard Ned
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Making sense of the world
  • Counterfactual thought experiments
  • Franz Ferdinand found alive: World War I unnecessary
  • Leadership and the end of the Cold War: did it have to end this way? / coauthored with George W. Breslauer
  • Scholars and causation 1 / coauthored with Philip E. Tetlock
  • Scholars and causation 2. Experiment 4, instrument 1: unmaking American tragedies
  • If Mozart had died at your age: psycho-logic versus statistical inference
  • Heil to the chief: Sinclair Lewis, Philip Roth, and fascism.