Should we really "Force Them to be Free?" An empirical examination of Peceny's liberalizing intervention thesis

Conflict Management and Peace Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-53

  Walker, Scott ^a   Pearson, Frederic S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Democratization; Elections; Human rights; Military intervention; U.S. foreign policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847100536     PISSN: 07388942     EISSN: 15499219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07388940601102829     Document Type: Article

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