Gender and Conditional Support for Torture in the War on Terror

Politics and Gender

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-33

  Haider Markel, Donald P ^a   Vieux, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 57749124011     PISSN: 1743923X     EISSN: 17439248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X08000019     Document Type: Article

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