East and Central European Countries and the Iraq War: The choice between "soft balancing" and "soft bandwagoning"

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-299

  Grigorescu, Alexandru ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwagoning; East and Central Europe; Iraq; Soft balancing

Indexed keywords

EID: 50149089815     PISSN: 0967067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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