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Acting As If: Dramatics, Deception, and the Production of State Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2021

Adria Lawrence*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Abstract

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Type
Twentieth Anniversary of Lisa Wedeen’s Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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