Audio Essay: Tribalism Among Nations

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Audio Essay: Tribalism Among Nations

Why does the psychology that deepens tensions with Russia and China seem so… familiar?

Robert Wright

Oct 21, 2022

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Tribalism Among Nations

Last week Robert Jervis, a political scientist at Columbia University, died. As deaths go, his wasn’t tragic. He had lived a full life, and he left a robust and influential body of work; by one count his name was the fourth most common on syllabi for college political science courses…

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