INTERNATIONAL: History can mislead policymakers
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- Santayana's fallacy
- Ideological bias
- Past is not prologue
- Reasoning by analogy
- A powerful, hazardous tool
- Extraordinary analytical aid
- Guide to 'difference'
- Counterfactual analysis
- 'Issue history'
- Analytical pitfalls
- False analogies
- Counterfactual speculation
- Parochialism
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