"Too sweet and innocent for war"?: Dutch Peacekeepers and the use of violence

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 454-474

  Sion, Liora ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Balkans; Peacekeeping; Srebrenica; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645683018     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X05281453     Document Type: Review

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