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The richness of the tradition of political realism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Robert G. Gilpin
Affiliation:
Eisenhower Professor of International Relations at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Abstract

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Symposium on the New Realism
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1984

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