Bono Made Jesse Helms Cry: Jubilee 2000, debt relief, and moral action in international politics

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 247-275

  Busby, Joshua William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; DEBT; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREIGN POLICY; MORALITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447283053     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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