Textualising british politics: Deconstructing the subject of british foreign policy

British Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 291-314

  Bulley, Dan ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deconstruction; Derrida; Foreign policy; Interpretivism; Poststructuralism; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350032227     PISSN: 1746918X     EISSN: 17469198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/bp.2009.10     Document Type: Article

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