National insecurities: The new politics of the American national interest

Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 58-76

  Gourevitch, Alexander ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203962329     Document Type: Chapter

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