Power politics and appeasement: Political Realism in British international thought, c. 1935-1955

British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 174-192

  Hall, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL THEORY; POLITICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645752183     PISSN: 13691481     EISSN: 1467856X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2005.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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