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Explaining the Good Friday Agreement: A Learning Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Etain Tannam*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham

Abstract

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9 As regards international organizations specifically, Haas argues that the task is to examine whether their internal processes cause learning.

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