Resilience, Critical Infrastructure, and Molecular Security: The Excess of "Life" in Biopolitics

International Political Sociology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 367-383

  Lundborg, Tom ^a   Vaughan Williams, Nick ^b  

^a Swedish Institute of International Affairs   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 83055196563     PISSN: 17495679     EISSN: 17495687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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