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A thinker from this country complained about the lack of historical study in the essay “Why Is There No International Theory?” yet his lengthy survey on power politics was only published by two students after his death. After becoming a citizen of this country, one of those two students grounded the international order in a “society of states”; that concept and his book The Anarchical Society influenced this country’s namesake school of (*) international relations. Thomas Schelling’s namesake “dilemma” about preemptive strikes is a “trap” named for a thinker from this country (-5[2])who championed a commonwealth (-5[1])to overcome the “Kingdom of Darkness.” That thinker from this country influenced realism with his chaotic characterization of the state of nature. (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])name this country home to Thomas Hobbes. ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: United Kingdom [or UK; accept England or Great Britain] (Martin Wight and Hedley Bull wrote Power Politics and The Anarchical Society respectively.)
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Peter ScullyTufts BAmherst90-5
James McCurleyHarvardMIT90-5
James MangravitiBoston College BBowdoin A94-5
Aalok BhattacharyaBoston College AClark House11610
Kayla DrajpuchBrandeis BBowdoin B11610
Yixi YangYaleBU11710
Jonathan SchnipperBrandeis ABowdoin C11910
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Nathan SheffieldMITHarvard12710
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