Re-aligning rationality: Crisis management and prisoner abuses in Iraq

Public Relations Review

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 471-478

  Kersten, Astrid ^a   Sidky, Mohammed ^b  

^a La Roche College   (United States)

^b POINT PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis; Crisis management; Dysfunction; Public relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044468885     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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