Global Governance and Twenty-first Century Technology

New Security Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 89-110

  Whitman, Jim ^a  

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Author keywords

Global Civil Society; Global Governance; Global Public Good; Ozone Layer Depletion; Wilful Ignorance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85144846507     PISSN: 27310329     EISSN: 27310337     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230591882_5     Document Type: Chapter

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