The Remnants of War

Who recommended it

1. 

   Steven Pinker Cognitive psychologist at Harvard University

   Explicit recommendation

   Picked in his Five Books interview on the decline of war.

   The best books on the Decline of Violence, recommended by Steven Pinker↗ Interviewfivebooks.com Five Books · 7 Oct 2011 · checked 12 Nov 2026

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