Evaluating IR's crystal balls: How predictions of the future have withstood fourteen years of unipolarity

International Studies Review

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-104

  Fettweis, Christopher J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POST-COLD WAR; THEORETICAL STUDY; WORLD SYSTEM;

EID: 3142688458     PISSN: 15219488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1079-1760.2004.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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