Human security as power/knowledge: The biopolitics of a definitional debate

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 383-401

  Grayson, Kyle ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85050709589     PISSN: 09557571     EISSN: 1474449X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09557570802253625     Document Type: Article

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