“…David Shinn Former Ambassador to Ethiopia and to Burkina Faso Adjust Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington D.C…”

“…Mittelman, Professor, American University, Washington, DC This book breaks new ground in the way we think about international relations theory.Kees van der Pijl argues that by making the;nation-state; the focus of international relations, the discipline has become Euro-centric and a-historical. …”

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