Soft News and Foreign Policy: How Expanding the Audience Changes the Policies

Japanese Journal of Political Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-145

  Baum, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 58749108735     PISSN: 14681099     EISSN: 14740060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1468109907002502     Document Type: Article

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