Exceptionalism of a kind: the political historiography of US foreign relations.
The recent US mid-term elections have not only dented President Obama's image at home and abroad, they have seen the return to 'divided government' whereby one party controls the Executive and the other controls either the Senate or the House of Representatives or both. Such divided government has b...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 153 - 172 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2011
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