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What the Enemy Knows: Common Knowledge and the Rationality of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2018

Thomas Chadefaux
Thomas Chadefaux*
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Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin. Email: thomas.chadefaux@tcd.ie
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , October 2020 , pp. 1593 - 1607
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