This Time It's Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 203-213

  Layne, Christopher ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POWER RELATIONS; SUPERPOWER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858670133     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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