When Can History Be Our Guide? The Pitfalls of Counterfactual Inference

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  2007

• Venue

  International Studies Quarterly

• Publication date

  2007-03-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, History

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1468-2478.2007.00445.X
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