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Europe, the United States and the Islamic World: Conceptualising a triangular relationship

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  1. The contributions included in this Special Issue were originally presented at the International Conference ‘Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States: The lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran’, held at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) in December 2007. The conference was organised by the Centre for Dialogue (La Trobe University) in cooperation with the Innovative Universities European Union Centre (La Trobe University); the Contemporary Europe Research Centre (University of Melbourne); the Cold War Studies Centre (London School of Economics, UK); the Institute for Social Ethics (Nanzan University, Japan); Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’ (Naples, Italy); and the Institute of International Relations (Warsaw University, Poland).

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Anceschi, L., Camilleri, J. & Petito, F. Europe, the United States and the Islamic World: Conceptualising a triangular relationship. Int Polit 46, 505–516 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2009.17

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