Getting Out From Under: Rethinking Security Beyond Liberalism and the Levels-of-Analysis Problem

Millennium - Journal of International Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-108

  Latham, Robert ^a  

^a SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

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EID: 84992812321     PISSN: 03058298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/03058298960250010601     Document Type: Article

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