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It was written well over a decade before I was born, but The Strategy of Conflict is the reason I went to grad school to pursue a Ph.D. in political science.  My undergraduate advisor gave me her well-worn, marked-up copy from a graduate seminar, and it was the first time I saw international politics as something more than history or current events.  It was a profound realization for a 19 year-old, and it steered my career toward academia.  I try to pay it forward by including the book on my Introduction to International Relations syllabus, and I re-tell this story at least twice a year to a hundred undergraduates.