Arms Transfers, Military Balances, and Interstate Relation: Modeling Power Balance versus Power Transition Linkages

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 711-727

  Sanjian, Gregory S ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arms transfers; Balance of power theory; Fuzzy set modeling; Power transition theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344585430     PISSN: 00220027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022002703258801     Document Type: Article

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