Japan's response to terror: Dispatching the SDF to the Arabian Sea

Asian Survey

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 329-351

  Midford, Paul ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; MILITARY INTERVENTION; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TERRORISM;

JAPAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0038320233     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2003.43.2.329     Document Type: Article

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