Three scholars debate whether it makes sense to see the Iraq War as the result of rational calculations by the Bush administration.
That one can pose a rational model that predicts preventive war does not make it the right model or necessarily do justice to the facts of the case.
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Alexandre Debs and Nuno P. Monteiro, both of Yale University. In it, they discuss the causes of the Iraq War, a subject of some recent discussion at The Duck of Minerva. This post discusses their forthcoming International...
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