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Pragmatic eclecticism, neoclassical realism and post-structuralism: reconsidering the African response to the Libyan crisis of 2011

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Pages 2334-2353 | Received 18 Apr 2018, Accepted 19 Nov 2018, Published online: 17 Jan 2019

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