Forbidden Fruit : Counterfactuals and International Relations /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lebow, Richard Ned
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Alternativgeschichte
Weltpolitik
World politics > Research.
International relations > Research.
Imaginary histories.
Counterfactuals (Logic)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Contrefactuels (Logique)
Histoire-fiction.
Guerre froide.
Politique mondiale > Recherche.
Relations internationales > Recherche.
Cold War.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 conducting robust counterfactual thought experiments and uses them to probe the causes and contingency of transformative international developments like World War I and the end of the Cold War. He uses experiments, surveys, and a short story to explore why policymakers, historians, and international relations schol.
Physical Description:1 online resource (348 pages).
ISBN:9781400835126

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