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| Why realists don’t go for bombs and bullets DM Edelstein | 6 | 2011 |
| Delusions of Grand Strategy DM Edelstein, RR Krebs Foreign Affairs 94 (6), 16, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
| The limits of grand strategy DM Edelstein | 3 | 2021 |
| The Persistence of Great Power Politics (February 2019) DM Edelstein Texas National Security Review, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Cold rivals: The new era of US-China strategic competition RK Betts, H Harding, W Jisi, W Xinbo, E Economy, AR Kroeber, ... Georgetown University Press, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Might Makes Right? Rethinking Legitimacy and the Use of Force D Edelstein Mortara Center for International Studies Working Paper no. C05 7, 0 | 2 | |
| Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power. By Manjari Chatterjee Miller. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 208p. 27.95 paper. DM Edelstein Perspectives on Politics 20 (1), 367-368, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
