Circling the wagons: Soft news and isolationism in American public opinion

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 313-338

  Baum, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; MEDIA ROLE; MILITARY INTERVENTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2942580587     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-8833.2004.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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