Secrecy games, power, and resistance in global politics

Veeren, Elspeth Van; Stevens, Clare; Senu, Amaha

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Secrecy games, power, and resistance in global politics

Elspeth Van Veeren

, Clare Stevens, Amaha Senu

Review of International Studies, Pages: 1 - 18

Swansea University Author: Amaha Senu

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In contrast to a view of secrecy as a tool of statecraft, where the game of ‘covering/uncovering’ dominates as the central way of interpretating secrecy’s power, we set out ‘secrecy games’ as an approach for understanding secrecy’s power and influence. To do so, we offer a set of three games to illu...

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Secrecy games, power, and resistance in global politics

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