Steve Bell's eye: Cartoons, geopolitics and the visualization of the 'War on Terror'

Security Dialogue

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-177

  Dodds, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'War on Terror'; Cartoons; Geopolitics; Steve Bell

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249085533     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010607078536     Document Type: Article

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