Review Article
Global Empire, Shared-Sovereignties, or Human Community? Contending Visions of World Order in Our Times (Part 1)
Author(s): Reza Pankhurst & Asma Afsaruddin & John. M. Owen IV & Salman Sayyid & Henry Kissinger & Garth Fowden & Michael Cook & Richard H. Davis
Reviewed by: S Parvez Manzoor
Review
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