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Explaining the Good Friday Agreement: A Learning Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Etain Tannam
Etain Tannam*
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University of Nottingham
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Government and Opposition , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 493 - 518
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