ELIZABETH N. SAUNDERS is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. A former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Harvard’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, she is the author of The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace, among other books.
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