Chapter 17: "Chiapas, the Zapatistas, and NAFTA: Social Exclusion and Political Instability in an Interdependent World," Matt Sisk

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  6. ibid., page 124.
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  21. ibid.
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  24. ibid.
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  35. ibid., page 11.
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  43. ibid., page 141.
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  45. ibid., page 171.
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  47. Rochlin, op. cit., page 70.
  48. ibid.
  49. ibid., page 79.
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  54. ibid.
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