Obama: The new contours of power

Race and Class

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Harris, Jerry ^a,b   Davidson, Carl ^b  

^a DEVRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Global Studies Association of North America   (United States)

Author keywords

'soft' power; Apollo Alliance; BRICs; Civil Rights movement; Global economic crisis; Iraq war; John McCain; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 62849098509     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: 17413125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306396809102993     Document Type: Article

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27. Quoted in ibid.
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31. See Demetri Sevastopulo, 'Here, we are not launching missiles, we are launching ideas', Financial Times (2 July 2008). p. 6.
32. Zbigniew Brezezinski, 'Four steps towards calming the chaos in Iraq', Financial Times (2 February 2007 ).
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35. Barnett Rubin and Ahmed Rashid, 'From Great Game to grand bargain', Foreign Affairs (November/December 2008 ). Ibid.