American power: Crisis or renewal?

Politics

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 15-23

  Dumbrell, John ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; GEOPOLITICS; NATIONAL POLITICS; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

EID: 78149374549     PISSN: 02633957     EISSN: 14679256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2010.01387.x     Document Type: Article

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