Decoding Ballistic Missile Defense: Semiotics and the power of the image in American Ballistic Missile Defense

Social Semiotics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-31

  Peoples, Columba ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

International security; Missile defense; Perception; Representation; Semiotics; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749142895     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330701838852     Document Type: Article

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