Assessing, Engaging, and Enacting Worlds
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Assessing, Engaging, and Enacting Worlds Wendy Harcourt, L. H. M. Ling, Marysia Zalewski & Swiss International Relations Collective (Elisabeth Prügl, Rahel Kunz, Jonas Hagmann, Xavier Guillaume and Jean-Christophe Graz) a International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands Email: b The New School, USA Email: c University of Aberdeen, Scotland Email: d SWIRCO, Switzerland Published online: 03 Feb 2015.
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