Letting secessionists have their way: Can partitions help end and prevent ethnic conflicts?

International Interactions

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 261-292

  Tir, Jaroslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict management; Domestic conflict; Ethnic conflict; Ethnicity; International conflict; Partition; Peace; Secession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142169795     PISSN: 03050629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050620213654     Document Type: Article

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