Why Leaders Fight

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PBS World Channel National Broadcast:  Virginia, March 27, 2016/Nationally, March 30, 2016

Allan C. Stam is Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Previously he was the Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the dynamics of armed conflict between and within states. His latest book, Why Leaders Fight (Cambridge University Press, 2015), co-authored with Michael Horowitz and Cali Mortensen Ellis, examines 2,400 world leaders and their decision to engage in armed conflicts.