Fuses, chains, and backlashes : China, the United States, and the dynamics of conflict contagion and escalation /

"Fuses, Chains, and Backlashes analyzes the reasons for some local, bilateral conflicts escalate and spread to become large, intense, and multilateral wars? This book investigates the processes that lead to huge albeit rare conflagrations such as World War I. It stresses equifinality, historica...

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