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The legacies of raison d’etat: a brief commentary on R. Harrison Wagner’s War and the State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2010

Michael C. Williams
Michael C. Williams*
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Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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*E-mail: Michael.Williams@uottawa.ca
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Symposium on War and the State
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International Theory , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 2010 , pp. 306 - 316
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