‘Oh bugger, they're in the tent’: British responses to French reintegration into NATO

European Security

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-122

  Bickerton, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Britain; France; NATO; power politics; pragmatism; strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050419456     PISSN: 09662839     EISSN: 17461545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2010.502168     Document Type: Article

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