Rethinking the United States's Myanmar policy

Asian Survey

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 603-621

  Holliday, Ian ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; MILITARY APPLICATION; POLITICAL CONFLICT; SANCTION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MYANMAR; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

DAUCUS CAROTA;

EID: 27644437390     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2005.45.4.603     Document Type: Article

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