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US Policy toward its Territories: A Complex and Perhaps Intractable Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

José Javier Colón-Morera
José Javier Colón-Morera*
Affiliation:
University of Puerto Rico
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Symposium: “Disembodied Shades”: Teaching the Territories of the United States
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 525 - 528
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 

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