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Syria, Productive Antinomy, and the Study of Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2018

Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 1085 - 1091
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