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Our understanding of history shapes our planning for the future. Assessment of what could have been done in past crises is important to judge fairly the responsibility of individual agents, but is also often used to formulate new rules, regimes and policies. Analyses of past options are counterfactual thought-experiments: Could those responsible have made different decisions, and what would the consequences have been? Despite the centrality of such analyses, there is only a limited literature on...Vis mer