UK African policy in the post-Cold War Era: From realpolitik to moralpolitik?

Commonwealth and Comparative Politics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 106-128

  Cumming, Gordon D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; IDEOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NEW WORLD ORDER;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1942530769     PISSN: 14662043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14662040408565570     Document Type: Article

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