‘My ambition is much higher than independence’: US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics

Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 131-151

  Kelly, John D ^a   Kaplan, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 85071083370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203485521-16     Document Type: Chapter

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