The Vision of War without Casualties: On the use of casualty aversion in armament advertisements

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 204-227

  Schörnig, Niklas ^a   Lembcke, Alexander C ^b  

^a Frankfurt am Main Research Center Transformations of Political Violence   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

advertisement; casualty aversion; defense industry; democratic peace; military procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249149599     PISSN: 00220027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022002705284827     Document Type: Article

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