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Dialogue with Arnold Wolfers (1892–1968)

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This is the fictional account of a chance meeting in the Fall of 2014 between James W. Davis and Arnold Wolfers in the Stiftsbibliothek, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located within the Abbey of St. Gallen, as the latter was observing a medieval handwritten copy of a text by Thomas Aquinas.

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  1. Arnold Wolfers (1962), Discord and Collaboration: Essays on International Politics, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press). In this fictional encounter, Wolfers repeats many of the arguments found in this collection.

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Davis, J.W. (2016). Dialogue with Arnold Wolfers (1892–1968). In: Lebow, R.N., Schouten, P., Suganami, H. (eds) The Return of the Theorists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137516459_24

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