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Notes on contributors
Matthew Hill is Programme Leader for the BA in International Relations and Politics and the MA in International Relations at Liverpool John Moores University. His research focuses on US foreign policy and democracy promotion and he is the author of Democracy Promotion and Conflict-based Reconstruction (Routledge, 2012).
Steven Hurst is Reader in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of several books on US foreign policy with the latest being The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
Notes
1 We note though that there are differences amongst social constructivists and that some take a rather more limited line, arguing only for the constructed nature of social reality rather than the totality of material reality.