'Alignment', not 'alliance' - The shifting paradigm of international security cooperation: Toward a conceptual taxonomy of alignment

Review of International Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-76

  Wilkins, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84855825193     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: 14699044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210511000209     Document Type: Article

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