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Humans are tribal animals, and a recurring failure to grasp this truth has contributed to some of the worst debacles of U.S. foreign policy in the past 50 years.
R. Sharipov. (2004)cite arxiv:math/0412421Comment: The textbook, AmSTeX, 132 pages, amsppt style, prepared for double side printing on letter size paper.
A. Slivkins. (2019)cite arxiv:1904.07272Comment: The manuscript is complete, but comments are very welcome! To be published with Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning.