Constructing and de-constructing the ACP group: Actors, strategies and consequences for development

Geopolitics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 635-655

  Slocum Bradley, Nikki ^a  

^a United Nations University   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN-PACIFIC COUNTRY; DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 34748872545     PISSN: 14650045     EISSN: 15573028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14650040701546095     Document Type: Article

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