The international relations of small neoauthoritarian states: Islamism, warlordism, and the framing of stability

International Studies Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 481-503

  Jourde, Cédric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; FOREIGN POLICY; HEGEMONY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; ISLAMISM; SECURITY THREAT;

AFRICA; GUINEA; MAURITANIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

LACUNA;

EID: 34447281269     PISSN: 00208833     EISSN: 14682478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2007.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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