Ambiguities of global civil society

Review of International Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-110

  Amoore, Louise ^a   Langley, Paul ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0742306179     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210504005844     Document Type: Article

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9. See Mark Zacher, The Decaying of the Westphalian Temple: Implications for International Order and Governance', in James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Czempiel (eds.) Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 58-101; Robert W. Cox with Timothy J. Sinclair, Approaches to World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 153-5; Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 264-76.
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117. For further discussion see James der Derian, 'In Terrorem: Before and After 9/11', in Ken Booth and Tim Dunne, Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 101-17.
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