Reconstructing political realism the long march to scientific theory

Security Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 3-94

  Tellis, Ashley J ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1080/09636419508429263     Document Type: Article

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