Framing post-conflict Societies: International pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 873-889

  Hughes, Caroline ^a   Pupavac, Vanessa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POST-WAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 32144449233     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436590500089232     Document Type: Article

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