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In Passing: The Political Psychology of As If as a Tool of Security Policy

Editor, IBPP

Publication date

March 1998

Publisher

Scholarly Commons

Language

English

Abstract

This article comments on the adaptive consequences for international security policy of formally ascribing a reality to a reality that seemingly doesn\u27t exist

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