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Progressive or regressive? the Anglo-Irish agreement as a dynamic in the Northern Ireland polity.

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Progressive or regressive? the Anglo-Irish agreement as a dynamic in the Northern Ireland polity. / Cochrane, Feargal.
In: Irish Political Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1993, p. 1-20.

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Cochrane F. Progressive or regressive? the Anglo-Irish agreement as a dynamic in the Northern Ireland polity. Irish Political Studies. 1993;8(1):1-20. doi: 10.1080/07907189308406505

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