Ethnic defection in civil war

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1043-1068

  Kalyvas, Stathis N ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil war; Counterinsurgency; Ethnicity; Identity; Insurgency

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249103196     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414008317949     Document Type: Article

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