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Governing an unknowable future: the politics of Britain’s Prevent policy†

Thomas MartinDepartment of International Relations, University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 62-78 | Received 17 Oct 2013, Accepted 13 Dec 2013, Published online: 28 Feb 2014

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