Consensual hegemony: Theorizing Brazilian foreign policy after the cold war

International Relations

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-84

  Burges, Sean W ^a  

^a Council on Hemispheric Affairs ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Antonio Gramsci; Brazil; Fernando Henrique Cardoso; Foreign policy; Hegemony

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649101725     PISSN: 00471178     EISSN: 17412862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047117807087243     Document Type: Article

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