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The University as a Transnational Actor with Transnational Power: American Missionary Universities in the Middle East and China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2014

Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen*
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Aalborg University, Denmark
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Symposium: Higher Education and World Politics
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 624 - 627
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