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Robert J. Pranger is director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and adjunct professor of internatihnal politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is the author of numerous books, including Detente and Defenseand, with Roger P. Labrie, Nuclear Strategy and National Security.
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Pranger, R.J. Melancholia, disempowerment, and American policy. Society 17, 12–16 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694799
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